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Meltdown, Spectre: The password theft bugs at the heart of Intel CPUs

phuzz Silver badge

Re: Lead time on new CPUs?

Why keep looking at Intel?

Early reports are that the kernel patches for part of this problem are causing 5-30% performance loss on Intel processors, and AMD chips tend to lag Intel by only about 5-30% for less money. So just go AMD.

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