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There are good reasons to go with AMD over Intel CPUs at the moment, the number of published security exploits should not be one. There is nothing fundamentally more insecure in the Skylake CPU architecture than in Zen 2, just one has more marketshare and gets scrutinized more intensely.

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> There is nothing fundamentally more insecure in the Skylake CPU architecture than in Zen 2

Except there is. Hence why Skylake suffered from Meltdown while AMD didn't. Skylake's design is to do ACL checks at instruction retirement instead of up front. AMD's is the reverse.

Software workarounds for Meltdown exist, yes, but the Skylake architecture still fundamentally has that insecure design.

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