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Re: Don't buy a new Intel based system for a while?

No need to reverse engineer - speculative execution is not a secret, it's just hardware engineers don't have an appreciation of software and/or couldn't be bothered to clear down the registers on execution failure.

For once you can't "fix it in software" - which, if you've ever worked for a co that designs hardware, is a big fat chicken coming home to roost.

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