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AMD CPU Attack Vectors and Vulnerabilities

Formula.350 said:
Which is, in relation to Ryzen, specific to AMD's chipsets/CPUs, as they licensed ASMedia's USB controller to be integrated into Ryzen, while Promontory probably has ASMedia PCIe multiplexers, and I'd assume SATA relation functions by them, too. (Apparently ASMedia designed, or is at least manufacturing, the Promontory chipset)
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The problem is that this was presented as being specifically an AMD issue when the affected ASMedia chips are also in many Intel boards. It also sounds like they didn't mention ASMedia by name in the "whitepaper", all I saw was some highly editorialized blurb about AMD "irresponsibly using low quality Taiwanese chips with poor security"(paraphrased).

I don't know why you're bringing up other ASMedia chips that I haven't seen mentioned as being affected and on top of that you don't even seem to know if AMD is actually using them.
 
Ebernanut said:
I don't know why you're bringing up other ASMedia chips that I haven't seen mentioned as being affected and on top of that you don't even seem to know if AMD is actually using them.
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*scratches head* We've just had a misunderstanding was all.
I had initially read your message as you saying that the whole thing with ASMedia was "not specific to the AMD chips", and that "only motherboards using ASMedia components" would be affected. As such, I was merely highlighting that ASMedia circuitry was integrated into Zen cores, speculating that it was likely inside Promontory, as well.

I'm not pointing fingers at all lol I think this whole witch hunt is a load of shit, don't worry! ;)
 
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