[chandlerc1024]

We're seeing the exploration of a new surface through speculative execution and related hardware techniques. There is basically a backlog of exploring this surface that researchers and security folks in industry are working to process. Eventually will settle into a more steady state, but takes a long while to push through the new territory.

[SemiTom]

An expanding attack surface in hardware, coupled with increasing complexity inside and outside of chips, is making it far more difficult to secure systems against a variety of new and existing types of attacks https://semiengineering.com/hardware-attack-surface-widening.... Per Paul Kocher “AI will help attackers in a number of ways, where behaviors that used to be unique to humans can now be automated in ways that are lot harder to distinguish from humans"