Several of the Intel architectural vunlnerabilities are for CPU's that are closing in on ten years old. AMD CPU's don't sell in the same quantities generally speaking. Comparatively, AMD CPU's are more obscure. Security through obscurity.
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Several of the Intel architectural vunlnerabilities are for CPU's that are closing in on ten years old. AMD CPU's don't sell in the same quantities generally speaking. Comparatively, AMD CPU's are more obscure. Security through obscurity.
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The vulnerabilities basically go back to the Pentium Pro (1995), and the actual patches (assuming the OEMs have them available) are available from Sandy Bridge (2011) to Kaby Lake (2016-present).
Kaby Lake is 2016-present, and is hardly a decade old, not to mention the performance hits have been massive in certain areas, especially in enterprise, transcoding, data transfers, killing off SMT/HT (only on Intel CPUs), etc. - the hits just keep on coming, with SWAPGS being the latest this month alone.
That makes zero sense, and sounds a lot more like conjecture and personal opinion than a stated fact.
Do you have any articles or whitepapers to back that up?
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Arguing vulnerabilities. With the next great and grand architecture, there will be vulnerabilities. With any manufacturer there will be vulnerabilities.
It's like fighting over who's shit stinks more. It does not matter who has more money or the best engineers/programmers/etc, there will always be a way around something.
It's like fighting over who's shit stinks more. It does not matter who has more money or the best engineers/programmers/etc, there will always be a way around something.
Umm.. it's actually quite different. So far the majority of the issues where with optimization that AMD didn't do because they were aware of the dangers. It's not saying they have no mistakes, they may have or have not made other mistakes. If one company has glaring obvious security issues while another hasn't, then it's a legitimate concern, not just about both stinking. It's like being next to a trash bin or a landfill, both stink, but... Yeah scale matters. That being said, I do feel Intel will (hopefully) be more careful going forward and AMD will continue to want to stay out of that spotlight.