Here we are - 3600 which was still under manufacture 2-3 years ago are not get patched. Shame on you AMD, if it is true.

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      3 months ago

      How is that? Does risc-v have magical properties that make its designers infallible, or somehow make it possible to fix flaws in the physical design after the CPU has already been fabbed and sold?

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      3 months ago

      As much as I like RISC-V, it is kind of ironic to suggest RISC-V ist the solution to this. At least as it stands, because of RISC-V’s simplicity, most if not all current RISC-V CPUs don’t even run microcode, so there is nothing to update/fix in case of a CPU bug. There’s even a very current example of this problem with that chinese RISC-V cpu that has this “GhostWrite” bug that allows every unpriviliged process to gain root access.