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How Red Hat Is Dealing With the Spectre of the CPU Meltdown

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Christine Hall
Jan 5, 2018

Those reading media accounts published Wednesday and Thursday are probably under the impression that while Spectre affects Intel, AMD and ARM CPUs, that Meltdown affects only Intel products — or perhaps all Intel CPUs and some ARM chips. Not so, says Red Hat’s Jon Masters. Both vulnerabilities are basically architecture agnostic.
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