Researchers discovered a potentially catastrophic vulnerability in AMD chips that has been there for decades. It’s called a ‘Sinkclose’ flaw.

Intel breathes a sigh of relief as the spotlight moves off of them for a beat.

  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months 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.