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AMD is bigger than ever: how did it get there?

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Geekz Snow

Whether its with the AMD Ryzen 7 3700X selling more than Intel’s entire lineup, or with the Ryzen 9 3900X outperforming any other processor in its territory, Team Red has pulled ahead.

However, it’s not hard to look back four or five years ago to see AMD processors sitting at the bottom of the pile.

For instance, the AMD Ryzen 7 1800X was able to score 1,612 in Cinebench R15, compared to the Intel Core i7-7700K’s 970.

Looking back, this kind of started a pattern, where AMD processors would come out, wipe the floor with the current-generation Intel processors in multi-core workloads, then Intel would release another refinement of Skylake, and then the process would repeat.

These were potentially catastrophic security failures, where attackers could execute some relatively simple code to get access to anything from passwords to photos you’ve since deleted.

There is more information here, but essentially these attacks take advantage of speculative execution, where a processor essentially guesses its next project, and then dumps any wrong data into the cache.

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