[coreboot] Are AMD CPUs as researched as Intel ones (was Re: New Intel microcode release for migiating ZOMBIELOAD FALLOUT AND OTHERS)

[Nico Huber]

Hi Ivan,

On 15.05.19 17:11, Ivan Ivanov wrote:
> Funny vuln names! Luckily AMD (as usual?) is not affected... As
> someone wrote at the forums, a hidden price for Intel higher
> performance is a holey pants, just for 120 fps in games instead of 110
> :P Neglecting security for the purpose of performing slightly better
> by skipping various checks inside CPU to improve the latencies, - is
> both unfair competition and scamming a consumer, since eventually he's
> getting significantly less performance than what he paid for

I'm curious. Did you do or know somebody who did as much research on AMD
processors, as was necessary to find these vulnerabilities? If not, how
can you make such comparisons?

Nico