On 1/1/20 5:43 AM, Lorenzo Lamas wrote:
Hello Thierry,
Thanks for all that you are doing for the community. Do you see a
possibility of a Qubes Certified Laptop with an AMD CPU?
Intel is affected a lot more than AMD by the sidechannel vulnerabilities
in the last years. The Privacy Beast has a 3rd gen Intel CPU, Intel
stopped providing uCode updates for 1st gen in 2019, so this year is
probably the last year they will support 3rd gen. More CPU
vulnerabilities will most certainly be discovered in the coming years,
so there is a need for an AMD based certified laptop, or at least a
newer generation Intel based laptop, even though that may mean we're
stuck with PSP or ME.
As much as I like the Insurgo/Purism/System76 offerings, this issue has
weighed on me to reconsider.
The massive amount of side-channel vulnerabilities have shown Intel's
engineering is reckless, and it gets worse. They're still pushing
fraudulent compiler code – detecting and de-optimizing AMD – almost a
decade after it was reported in the press. And they outright refuse to
pay government fines relating to their misconduct – which also included
threatening PC vendors with retaliation if they sell "too many" AMD units.
Historically, when a behemoth like Intel goes renegade its because they
know their products are superior and the public will accept the
situation as a trade-off. But the only thing that's "superior" about
Intel is their attitude and their ill-gotten revenue.
The biggest problem I see is peoples' willingness to go along with what
is becoming a tradition of anti-competition. Whatever logical fallacies
are put forward to make it seem palatable with CPUs will also undermine
user motivations in other areas.
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