[Info-vax] Intel x86-64 Processor Design Security Vulnerability?

[already5chosen at yahoo.com]

On Friday, January 5, 2018 at 4:04:09 PM UTC+2, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2018-01-05, Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> >
> > 2) British chipmaker ARM told news site Axios prior to this report that some
> > of its processors, including its Cortex-A chips, are affected.
> >  
> 
> Here is the list for ARM:
> 
> https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update
> 
> Interesting that there's nothing from ARMv5 on that list.
> 
> At the rate things are going, older machines and CPUs are going
> to be selling for several times the price of current machines. :-)
> 
> Simon.
> 
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No such risk in ARM's case.
Cortex-A5, A7, A53 and A35 and not affected and any of those cores is faster than anything ARMv5 or ARMv6.

Besides, their list covers only ARM-designed devices. Most ARMv5 devices that run protected-mode OSes and are still sold are designed by 3rd parties - mostly  Marvell (or even Intel in some older Marvell chips). ARM Inc. does not have to care about them.