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

[Dion]

Leon Brooks wrote:

>
>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
>
>  
>
AMD cpus are not susceptible to this flaw.  No AMD processors implement 
hyperthreading or anything similar.  The K7 / K8 pipelines are too short 
to offer significant performance gains from concurrent thread execution.

Cheers.
D.

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