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Researchers discover potentially catastrophic exploit present in AMD chips for decades (www.engadget.com)
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Intel breathes a sigh of relief as the spotlight moves off of them for a beat.

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[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

It does mean that any secondhand computer or CPU (or even CPU from a sketchy source) could be compromised prior to being physically sold.

Does it mean that? I mean a computer bought from a sketchy source, sure. But just a cpu alone? Do these raptor lake cpus have any non volatile memory? Because if not, then a second hand cpu is totally safe.