[plug] "Hyper-Threading, suffers from a serious security flaw,"

[Leon Brooks]

On Saturday 14 May 2005 20:13, Arie Hol wrote:
> Probably very little, seeing as they are now leaning more towards
> dual core CPUs in preference to HT CPUs.

Are you sure the cores _aren't_ independently hyperthreading?

He doesn't explicitly say whether AMD CPUs are vulnerable or not. The focus 
seems to be on only Intel. Speaking as the owner-driver of many AMD CPUs 
and one non-HT Intel CPU, does anybody know for sure?

Cheers; Leon

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