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0 pointspaulmd3y ago0 comments

Meltdown wasn't Intel-only - POWER and ARM A75 were affected as well. Meltdown affected everyone except AMD (who have had a similar issue surface themselves recently with their implementation of the PREFETCH instruction) and SPARC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltdown_(security_vulnerabili...

You're not in the minority for thinking this, there was some serious journalistic miscarriage there. To a lot of people, Intel and AMD are the whole world and if it doesn't affect AMD then it's Intel-only. Even people in tech journalism.

(thought I remember Oracle eventually admitting SPARC was vulnerable as well but I can't find it so maybe not)

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jcranmer3y ago

> You're not in the minority for thinking this, there was some serious journalistic miscarriage there. To a lot of people, Intel and AMD are the whole world and if it doesn't affect AMD then it's Intel-only. Even people in journalism.

As I recall, the initial investigation focused on Intel, AMD, and some ARM implementations, so that was what was reported; I personally didn't attempt to follow up on any subsequent investigations on other architectures, so I was unaware of any specific results on SPARC et al, good or bad.

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0 pointspaulmd3y ago0 comments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltdown_(security_vulnerabili...

(thought I remember Oracle eventually admitting SPARC was vulnerable as well but I can't find it so maybe not)

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jcranmer3y ago

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