> On 4 Jan, 2018, at 3:38 pm, Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I lay awake last night trying to figure out what the impact of these
> bugs would be on the market. What I think will happen is everybody's
> stock is going to go up as there is a mad rush to replace now 10-30%
> slower hardware just to meet existing loads.

I think *AMD's* stock is going to go up a lot more than Intel's, because they 
have pretty good server/workstation hardware now, and no vulnerability to the 
most serious variants of this attack (which means no performance impact from 
mitigation).  Apparently there are also mitigations for Spectre v1 and v2 which 
have minimal performance impact; Meltdown is the one which has a big 
performance cost to deal with.

Probably some ARM and PowerPC server vendors could get a boost too, but only 
after their exposure to these attacks has been properly assessed.

 - Jonathan Morton

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