[Trisquel-users] Re : Hot news - Major flaw in Intel CPUs

[lcerf]

Spectre has nothing to do with 'Management Engines" and the like.  It deals  
with "speculative execution" (e.g., "branch prediction") that aims at faster  
executions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_execution

The POWER architecture uses speculative pipelines too:  
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/ibm/microarchitectures/power9 (see "Speculative"  
in the info box).  I believe researchers only verified Intel/AMD and ARM  
architectures because they are far more widespread.  POWER processors are  
probably at risk too.