Or use AMD....

Arnavion · on April 10, 2020

Spectre mitigations are applied for both Intel and AMD.

jankotek · on April 10, 2020

Only partly

> Based on external and internal analysis, AMD believes it is not vulnerable to the SWAPGS variant attacks because AMD products are designed not to speculate on the new GS value following a speculative SWAPGS. For the attack that is not a SWAPGS variant, the mitigation is to implement our existing recommendations for Spectre variant 1.

https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/product-security

saagarjha · on April 10, 2020

Most of the Spectre variants do affect AMD as well, however.

CodeArtisan · on April 10, 2020

some mitigations are also applied to AMD Zen2. A benchmark on Phoronix showed a cost between 15% and 5% of performances.

papermachete · on April 10, 2020

AMD only just now released laptop CPUs that can compete with intel.

dirtydroog · on April 10, 2020

What has that got to do with anything?

papermachete · on April 10, 2020

There was no incentive go to with AMD so now a ton of people want their Intel performance back instead of buying a new PC. Heck, this also applies to FX CPUs.