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AMD Is Releasing Spectre Firmware Updates To Fix CPU Vulnerabilities (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: AMD's initial response to the Meltdown and Spectre CPU flaws made it clear "there is a near zero risk to AMD processors." That zero risk doesn't mean zero impact, as we're starting to discover today. "We have defined additional steps through a combination of processor microcode updates and OS patches that we will make available to AMD customers and partners to further mitigate the threat," says Mark Papermaster, AMD's chief technology officer. AMD is making firmware updates available for Ryzen and EPYC owners this week, and the company is planning to update older processors "over the coming weeks." Like Intel, these firmware updates will be provided to PC makers, and it will be up to suppliers to ensure customers receive these. AMD isn't saying whether there will be any performance impacts from applying these firmware updates, nor whether servers using EPYC processors will be greatly impacted or not. AMD is also revealing that its Radeon GPU architecture isn't impacted by Meltdown or Spectre, simply because those GPUs "do not use speculative execution and thus are not susceptible to these threats." AMD says it plans to issue further statements as it continues to develop security updates for its processors.
I have been told by at least 500 Koolaid drinkers and their bots that the only vulnerable chips that have ever existed in all of human history were made by Intel because INTEL IS THE SOLE SOURCE OF EVIL ON EARTH!
Intel put these bugs in intentionally because Russia & NSA while simultaneously doing it because they are stupid!
Any school child and CPU design experts like Linus Torvalds Theo De Radt knew about these bugs and exactly how to exploit them for DECADES but didn't do anything about it until now because of Intel's MIND CONTROL RAYS that made open source software illegal!
This disrupts the narrative and therefore is an anti-science big-oil lie. AMD chips are all perfect. Hell, AMD chips are so perfect that you don't need to even update the software because software bugs are just a propaganda lie invented by EVIL INTEL to distract us from the fact that AMD is perfect.
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
You *deliberately* ignored that, when saying "zero risk doesn't mean zero impact", to artificially make a point as sleazy as a (certain) corporate spokesperson's.
The lottery also has near zero chance of winning. But it certainly wasn't zero, as you'd imply, for those who did.