Spectre & Meltdown

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Sat Jan 6 14:52:31 CST 2018


On 01/06/2018 12:30 PM, Ken Seefried via cctalk wrote:

> The exploit effects the speculative execution facility, so no it's not
> "all P6 forward": nothing 32-bit or PAE, nothing just OOO, etc.  The
> current word I have (from my risk management folks, who got it from
> Intel) is the oldest chips verified to be affected are the Xeon 3400
> (server) and 2nd Gen Core (desktop) processors.  So, probably nothing
> later than 2009 or so.

Ken, I'm not sure I understand.  Do you mean nothing earlier than 2009
or so is affected?

--Chuck



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