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		devwastaken on June 22, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday It's mostly Intel that's affected. They got the market edge by knowingly putting unsafe optimizations in their silicon and then never disclosing it. AMD is not nearly as affected, nor ARM.

colechristensen on June 22, 2021 | [–]

Or Intel is more popular and attracting more attack research.

I think both are true.

bosswipe on June 22, 2021 | [–]

This is not true

ARM: https://developer.arm.com/support/arm-security-updates/specu...

There are also a bunch of mitigations for AMD.

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