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There is a lot of false equivalence going on about the vulnerability of Intel vs everyone else.

Yes spectre type issues effect many ranges of processor (including AMD), however everything shown to date indicates that its very difficult to exploit.

There are a large number of Intel only issues like meltdown and the L1 cache attack that are much more severe, and much easier to exploit.



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