Well, I'm still using a Ryzen 3000 chip. Maybe I should go Intel next time. Oh wait, those are currently corroding from the inside. Guess I'll just stop using computers.
Afaik you need kernel access to use this vulnerability. It still sucks, but having malware with kernel access sucks either way. So lets just hope that our favorite kernel anti-cheats never get compromised.
I still love my 3000 series. Nice speed, low heat, good price. I'll probably upgrade my gpu again before replacing it. What a good little workhorse.
I am hopeful that some further work on RISC-V gets some more competition in the space.
To be fair it's now 3 gens old but I do feel the sentiment
AMD should patch whatever is still in widespread use, including the 3xxx series. It's not that old.
Yes
This is not a bug that affects consumers. plenty of hardware has firmware vulnerabilities like this, including ssds, the groups who care about this are the ones who have security as a top priority.
Are the newer ones any better? Iโm not replacing my CPU, mobo, and ram for like a 25% improvement
Even the low end cpus in the new 9000 series put my 5950X to shame
https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-9600x-9700x/3
Many pages of benchmarks here, keen to see what the 9950x can do
Safe to assume that these patches will be provided via operating system updates? Patch to the kernel for Linux users? I see bajillion articles when I look up sinkclose, but nothing about the patch method.
Patch method is BIOS via OEMs. https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/amd-sb-7014.html
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