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An Anonymous Coward writes:

We are aware of the report of a new security exploit called SPOILER which can gain access to partial address information during load operations. We believe that our products are not susceptible to this issue because of our unique processor architecture. The SPOILER exploit can gain access to partial address information above address bit 11 during load operations. We believe that our products are not susceptible to this issue because AMD processors do not use partial address matches above address bit 11 when resolving load conflicts.

https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/pa-240 [amd.com]

So this is yet another "trick" used by Intel to increase performance at the expense of good security practice.

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