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by dbdbdbdbdb 678 days ago
According to Wikipedia the Ryzen 3000 series CPUs were released on 7 July 2019:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_2

That's not very old.

I guess maybe they can't fix them or something. This is very bad for their reputation.

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Given the relative CPU stagnation, even a ten year old chip (2014) is still more than capable of doing tasks the average user requires.
I still have an i5 2500k chugging along being able to do everything that isn't a heavy workload with ease. This kind of exploit for a CPU that is only 5 years old not getting a fix is embarrassing and shameful.