Bear in mind that we may be entering a time when the capabilities of bad guys is nearly as advanced as the brilliant engineers who design the processors in the first place. The Intel vulnerabilities have all to one extent or another been patched and fixed. Performance has suffered a little bit, but far less than the doom and gloom of the early predictions. It’s only a few percentage points max right now.
Long term, we can expect Intel to abandon their current version of Hyper Threading and create a new execution pipeline from the ground up but it will take serious time (as in years). They weren’t expecting this to be as big of a deal as it was.
I don’t think you need to NOT buy an Intel CPU because of these issues. However, if you want to buy a CPU that isn’t susceptible to most of the CURRENTLY KNOWN exploits, buy an AMD Ryzen. They are simply incredibly good at the moment. AMD is poised to take the desktop CPU market lead from Intel during the second half of this year before Intel will be able to respond with faster new technology. This is pretty remarkable for a company that was all but dead for nearly 10 years.
“AMD is poised to take the desktop CPU market lead from Intel during the second half of 2019”
Wow. I didn’t know that. That is really astonishing. Are their CPUs totally compatible with Intel CPUs, both OS and apps?