Alan cox has been doing a good job of finding the good stuff. Power and the IBM z-series are also affected.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AlanCoxLinux On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 5:48 AM, Jonathan Morton <chromati...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> 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 > -- Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC http://www.teklibre.com Tel: 1-669-226-2619 _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list Cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel
