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Re:AMD's Zen 3 CPUs Are Susceptible to Spectre-Like Vulnerab... by mhh__ on Sunday April 04, 2021 @07:50AM (#26688706)
Spectre-like is the key thing here. They've introduced a new mechanism accessible presumably by a similar side channel (haven't read the paper yet)
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Re:AMD's Zen 3 CPUs Are Susceptible to Spectre-Like Vulnerab... by alanfranz on Sunday April 04, 2021 @07:52AM (#26688716)
Spectre is a class of bugs right now. The "classical" spectre relies on branch prediction, here we have another kind of prediction... but it's not that different, IMHO.
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