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by kllrnohj 2298 days ago
> There is nothing fundamentally more insecure in the Skylake CPU architecture than in Zen 2

Except there is. Hence why Skylake suffered from Meltdown while AMD didn't. Skylake's design is to do ACL checks at instruction retirement instead of up front. AMD's is the reverse.

Software workarounds for Meltdown exist, yes, but the Skylake architecture still fundamentally has that insecure design.