AMD will Spectre-proof the Zen 2 architecture, and 4 other nuggets from its earnings call

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“We continue to believe that variant 2 of Spectre is difficult to exploit on AMD processors. However, we are deploying CPU microcode packages that in combination with operating system patches, provide additional mitigation steps. “Longer term, we have included changes in our future processsor cores, ...

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