Of course not. Just pointing out that he's been warning about undisclosed CPU and BIOS bugs and vulnerabilities for years. Comes up all the time on the misc@ and tech@ openbsd.org mailing lists.
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Of course not. Just pointing out that he's been warning about undisclosed CPU and BIOS bugs and vulnerabilities for years. Comes up all the time on the misc@ and tech@ openbsd.org mailing lists.
The problem with bulldozer was not fab-related (as is well documented if you google search for me, I predicted bulldozer's ****** performance before it was fabbed, in fact). And they haven't had to pay for their own fabs for years, yet they only just now got competitive again.
I assume you're aware that AMD owns RTG. I also assume you're aware of the existence of Kaby Lake-G CPU+GPU. AMD providing Intel with GPUs to mount on the same package, rivalling the GTX 1050m with less heat and less power consumption. Maybe now that GPP is dead we shall see more laptops with this package.
On the other hand, Ryzen and Ryzen 2 CPUs turned out to be pretty damn good. Not counting 16x cores Threadripper (64x PCIe lanes) and 32x cores EPYC (128x PCIe lanes).
Intel for the last years just pulled off a refresh of the very same CPU, with small tweaks and same core count 4. AMD spiced up the game, not Intel.
Intel seems to be gearing for a standalone GPU launch in 2020. I wonder how competitive they're going to be with nVidia's high end offerings. Seeing how the crypto miners have been eating up high end graphics cards and causing MSRP to increase, it does seem like a very profitable market these days. I doubt Intel will be able to beat nVidia's highest end offerings, because they don't have the experience, skilled people and the driver maturity nVidia has. No one can match nVidia's d3d11 performance.
glad i saw the glory days on intel back in the hot 90's when i did contract work at different intel fab sites
No, Apple too!
"Meltdown is a name given to an exploitation technique known as CVE-2017-5754 or "rogue data cache load." The Meltdown technique can enable a user process to read kernel memory. Our analysis suggests that it has the most potential to be exploited. Apple released mitigations for Meltdown in iOS 11.2, macOS 10.13.2, and tvOS 11.2, and also in Security Update 2018-001 for macOS Sierra and Security Update 2018-001 for OS X El Capitan. watchOS did not require mitigation."
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208394
I know they are two unrelated issues.
They only got competitive again now because they had to spend several years designing a completely new architecture while at the same time refreshing for survival.
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Already discussed above.
Spectre V1!
According to my current knowledge Spectre V2 is only theoretically possible at AMD.
AMD and SpectreNG? We don't know yet.
Ryzenfall only works with root privileges.
=> AMD Ryzen would probably be the better CPU for the Mac
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Intel deserves this for the lies about spectre and meltdown. As I’ve said before I can’t wait to see intel stock slide more and more and hope they never recover financially
So let me ask an out of bounds question. What if Apple were to employ their chip designers to adopt a new architecture that just happens to run x86, PPC, RISC and iOS as secure enclaves?
Hmmmm?
First deployed quantum computer?
Hmmmm?
First deployed quantum computer?
"All Mac systems and iOS devices are affected"
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208394
I don't think so.
Apple makes this for fun. Ironically Apple!
Do you really think that? Or is this a joke?
Asides from the obvious, that this new vulnerability affects ARM as well as Intel, what "better and better" are you talking about?
Agreed. Once upon a time, Intel made semi custom CPUs for Apple too. I seem to recall the original low-power Macbook Air CPU was made just for Apple. I am sure AMD would be more than happy to accommodate whatever Apple wanted.
Meltdown was one bug that was easy for Intel to fix, and they already fixed it (and btw it affected ARM too). Spectre is the one that's hard, and it affects all of them. I don't see any reason to believe Apple or AMD will do better than Intel in fixing it.
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Agreed. They're occasionally better than Intel, but only for one generation at a time, and I'd rather not risk it.
They're like the cheap off-brand version of Intel. They've sold so much BS, like processors with gimmicky high clock speeds to attract less experienced buyers, and there are hidden problems like poor SSE support. I don't even waste my time considering them for builds anymore.
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Their stock hasn't been sliding. It went down for one day after Meltdown was presented, before everyone realized 1. competitors also have bugs and 2. this forces people to buy new CPUs anyway. Since then it's been going up. It's much higher now than at the end of January.