Hi Nico, when someone finds a vulnerability at Intel, people do a good digging for a similar vulnerability at AMD. And so far, if I haven't missed something, it has been discovered that AMD shares only a few variants of Spectre together with Intel, while all the other vulns seem to be Intel-specific. Judging by the lack of other findings, I believe that AMD is more secure - perhaps because they haven't used such a "speedhacks"...
ср, 15 мая 2019 г. в 18:23, Nico Huber nico.h@gmx.de:
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