On first glance it looks like many CPUs are vulnerable to same-privilege mis-speculation leaks (e.g. in JIT engines - disable eBPF jit if you have it enabled), but Intel has the real SNAFU in letting it leak across privilege modes.
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Then there's the branch target misprediction attack; it seems to rely a lot on the details of Intel branch prediction, but it's unclear whether other CPUs are affected by variants of it. Maybe this is patchable in microcode?
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Replying to @marcan42
The branch one is described as affecting ARM and AMD, if I’m reading right?
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Replying to @11rcombs
It doesn't seem to be clear to what extent. It's heavily uarch specific and the research seems to have focused on Intel.
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