“Security researchers from Amsterdam have publicly detailed ‘BlindSide’ as a new speculative execution attack vector for both Intel and AMD processors,” reports Phoronix:
BlindSide is self-described as being able to “mount BROP-style attacks in the speculative execution domain to repeatedly probe and derandomize the kernel address space, craft arbitrary memory read gadgets, and enable reliable exploitation. This works even in face of…
Tag: Coffee Lake
Intel Unveils 10th Gen ‘Comet Lake’ CPUs, Pricing
UnknowingFool writes: Intel released more information about their next generation CPUs, codenamed Comet Lake. Overall, CPUs will get more cores and threads and slight speed boosts. Price wise, Intel is cutting prices to be more competitive with AMD’s Rzyen processors. Some of the downsides include requiring new socket (thus new MBs), LGA 1200 and lack of PCIE 4.0 compatibility. No specific…
Intel Launches Core i9-9900KS 8-Core CPU At 5GHz Across All Cores
MojoKid writes: As the “S” in its name implies, the new Intel Core i9-9900KS that launched today is something akin to a Special Edition version of the company’s existing Core i9-9900K 8-core CPU. The processors are built from the same slab of silicon — an 8-core, Coffee Lake-refresh based die and packaged up for Intel’s LGA1151 socket. What makes the Core…
Zen 2 Ryzen IPC Testing Shows AMD Has Closed the Performance Gap With Intel
MojoKid writes: AMD’s new Ryzen 3000 processors can boost as high as 4.6 GHz, a notable bump over previous Ryzen models, but what about AMD’s purported Instructions Per Cycle (IPC) gains? Has AMD’s Zen 2 architecture finally caught up to Intel’s Coffee Lake-based Core series processors in terms of IPC? To prove this out, HotHardware pitted a 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X…
In New Benchmark Tests, AMD Challenges Both Intel And Nvidia
“AMD is unleashing an arsenal of products today,” writes Slashdot reader MojoKid. Hot Hardware writes:
The Zen 2-based AMD Ryzen 3000 series is easily one of the most anticipated product launches in the PC space in recent memory. AMD has essentially promised to address virtually all of the perceived shortcomings of the original Zen-based Ryzen processors, with the Ryzen 3000 series, while…