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Re:Lord of the Ring(s): Side Channel Attacks on the CPU On-C... by csharptwdec19 on Monday March 08, 2021 @10:30AM (#26386736)
> The only reason AMD wasn't hit by Meltdown too is their cores are/were less optimised.

That doesn't answer whether they were less optimized because someone on the Red team realized that was a good idea.

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Re:Lord of the Ring(s): Side Channel Attacks on the CPU On-C... by thu2111 on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @05:06AM (#26397231)
There's clearly no such red team, as otherwise they would have blocked various Spectre attacks too, being as they are all variants of the same problem. AMD were taken by surprise like every other vendor, they just got "lucky" with Meltdown.
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