The Next Vulnerability: Looking Back on Meltdown and Spectre One Year Later

Discovered independently by multiple research teams, each flaw exposed critical vulnerabilities across a wide range of modern processors, including ones from major chip makers Intel and AMD, as well as several designs based on the ARM architecture. As a result, RISC-V greatly reduces the amount of ancillary work required for a processor security project, allowing design teams to move more quickly and focus on areas of innovation – including security. These heterogeneous “fast / secure” architectures side-step the difficult (and probably impossible) problem of correcting all known and unknown vulnerabilities affecting legacy designs.

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