Pro NVMe adapter Does not fit ! ?

[Arwen]

I looked at them some time ago, but then Meltdown & Spectre reared it's ugly head. After the falllout, I found that I am now avoiding Intel CPUs.

Search for cortex a72. The situation is by no means better

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(s...erability)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltdown_(...erability)

Actually it IS better for AMD x86_x64 & ARM type CPUs.

Meltdown, Foreshadow, TLBleed, Fallout, RIDL and ZombieLoad are Intel only CPU security flaws. (There may be others that I don't know about or forgot.) I guess that makes Intel the World Leader In CPU Security Flaws.

That said, (I do love a bit of hyperbole, especially when it involves hyperthreading :-), I am more mad at Intel for both not jumping on real, hardware fixes sooner. And potentially ignoring the security flaws in the first place, just to be a tiny bit faster than the competition.

To be clear, I am aware that not only do other CPUs have security flaws, they may include ones that Intel does not have.

Everytime I perform an update of my 6 year old Intel laptop, I am reminded how much slower it has become since the software mitigations for the security flaws came out. It was perfectly reasonable for updates before. Now, it can take days to perform an update, (to compile all the code, even on a SSD).