Glad the old 40mhz Motorola 68030 in my Macintosh IIfx isn't impacted. Old tech can be a shelter from modern chaos.
How can Intel screw up designing a memory management unit? They have been around since the 80's.
I just built a "new" Skylake machine in January 2016. Now I can look forward to massive performance penalties? I should have waited for Ryzen and stuck with my AMD Phenom II system for longer. I got impatient and tired of my office being hot in the summer.
This news should be good news for AMD stockholders but Cramier is out there on CNBC telling people that Intel is fine and that this flaw is no big deal if "you use the internet". Absolutely stupid to tell people it's OK. He successfully crashed AMD's stock last quarter, something tells me he is Intel-funded to pump Intel and suppress AMD.
My PfSense firewall is now also at risk as it's a Core 2 Duo machine. Great.