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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

And let all those backdoors just walk away?

[–] Mettled@reddthat.com 0 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I assume that you're at least halfway joking about backdoors in Intel.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Intel silicon has historically had a lot of "bugs"...

[–] Mettled@reddthat.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Every and any hardware manufacturer can or has.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What he means is the feature of having a lightweight OS with no documentation running under the OS you as a customer is running.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/s/c6bhbowtrf

[–] DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's not going to go away by switching to AMD or some ARM implementation, they all have their own equivalent. Maybe if you're running some fully libre open-source RISC-V chip, but those are currently nowhere near capable of competing on the big stage for anything other than embedded/hobbyist stuff.

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