>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/
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>Intel (but apparently not AMD) x86-64 CPUs (basically, what everyone's been buying for years) have a severe security vulnerability. This apparently can't be fixed via microcode or BIOS updates so it must be worked around in OSs. This will cause slowdowns on these CPUs, initial estimates are at least 5% performance hit, potentially much more for some use cases.
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>As the article notes, large cloud environments basically run on Intel CPUs and are heavily affected.
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>There's some speculation that patches that fix the issue for supported Windows OSs may arrive as early as Patch Tuesday (January 9th).

I'm so happy to have went for AMD since 2003... And that was because of Intel being all too compliant with then request to deanonymize its chips, i.e. be a big help to Big Brother.