Rumor: Ryzen 3000XT chips with higher clock speeds are on the way

[BoboOOZ]

To be fair, I don't think there were many attacks based on Intel CPU security bugs. However, you pay these bugs with performance: whenever a security breach is found, the fix for it comes with a new performance hit and some of these performance hits are in the double digits.

 

[Irata]

To be fair, I don't think there were many attacks based on Intel CPU security bugs. However, you pay these bugs with performance: whenever a security breach is found, the fix for it comes with a new performance hit and some of these performance hits are in the double digits.

Isn't one of these bugs' troubling aspect that you can't really tell if one of them has been exploited ?

 

[BoboOOZ]

Isn't one of these bugs' troubling aspect that you can't really tell if one of them has been exploited ?

To me personally, no, but YMMV.
Software vulnerabilities are much more abundant and tend to be more easily exploited by hackers, in my opinion. The only trouble I have had in my professional life was one ransomware attack that blocked a small number of files on my laptop a few years ago, and that was removed the next day. It was a Microsoft security breach, IIRC.
100% security does not exist, but if you're reasonably prudent, there's no reason to lose sleep over it.
Now, if my job was to rent VM's to companies, maybe I would feel differently, but for most users, these security problems are felt only via performance penalties, IMO.