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		coder543 on Sept 15, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IBM introduces z15 mainframe I think we were talking about Spectre, Meltdown, and related attacks. Not the PSP or IME, although those are concerning too.

floatboth on Sept 15, 2019 [–]

Well, Spectre affected pretty much all processors except very slow ones (Cortex-A53) :)

coder543 on Sept 15, 2019 | [–]

It affected AMD's Zen architecture significantly less. A number of exploits that applied to Intel didn't apply at all to Zen, and the ones that did apply had less costly mitigations than Intel.

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