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Post by The Light Bringer on Jan 17, 2018 7:35:34 GMT
Spectre and meltdown are the loudest hits, but they aren't the only that are found in last few years, at this point I'm here to say Intel's situation is not good and if you want to know more, then well security breaches in last few months that have come publicly has put down trust in company and tbh it has a huge impact on performance, patches that are causing glitches and doesn't work properly is not the worst thing here, like patches hits performance anywhere from5-50% depending on task and you can feel it as a PC user already and there are already multiple cases against Intel because of performance impact, but imagine if you are a company that has servers/mainframes/workstations/supercomputers 5-50% are huge numbers and they are costing a lot, some companies are already migrating to AMD and tbh I recommend doing so as performance per $ is hugely higher to AMD and well every Intel CPU has AMD counterpart that does it's thing very well. Well the rumors about that every CPU is vulnerable to at least some variations of Spectre, those are lies to some extent, while intel has every processor since 1995 vulnerable(except itanium and atom), amd has only one type of vulnerability, but to exploit it you need hardware access and well if you have that there are easier and faster ways to hack them. ARM has most processors vulnerable, but they are mostly used in closed environment and while they are used in mobile phones too, you have to acknowledge the fact that exploiting spectre on ARM has no point, exploiting it requires hardware access and there's no data worth getting from devices on ARM. And well there is no data about wether or not it has any effect on VIA processors.
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