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For once I actually feel excited about processors again

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[–] dragontamer@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

You know that ARM and RISC-V are both subject to Specter attacks right? Any out-of-order processor (which is every modern CPU, not just x86) are subject to Specter.

All CPUs perform speculative execution and branch prediction.