Re: Intel's having a bad year... but it looks like it's going to be worse for AMD

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:

Recent revelations about the "Sinkclose" bug could be devastating for
the company, since not only is a serious issue, but it effects a much
wider range of products. "Sinkclose" leverages the System Management
Mode built into x86 processors since at least 2006, and allows
hardware access even below 'ring zero' security levels (and any such
access would generally be undetectable by the OS).

Hmm, didn't I see a RISC-V motherboard heavily discounted just the other
day? Yep, the HiFive Unlimited is going for $299 on Mouser.

Still, RISC-V has a long way to go until it's competitive with anything,
let alone having software support for anything gaming but at least you
can get a board in a PC format unlike ARM.