Spectre's less of a problem than Meltdown because while it's harder to fix it's also much harder to take advantage of.

As for Meltdown, Apple's fix came out in December and as far as I can tell has had no noticeable effect on anything, at least as far as "everday" amd DAW use is concerned. So with any luck the Windows fix won't either, though to some extent any performance reducing consequences might be more noticeable on older cpus.

The biggest performance problems will be for those running big SQL databases, server farms etc.

That sux. I'm feeling pretty good about my AMD processor right now.

SF_Green
That sux. I'm feeling pretty good about my AMD processor right now.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/3/16846784/microsoft-processor-bug-windows-10-fix

http://www.businessinside...-chip-flaw-2018-1?IR=T

he knew! he knew!

I think Martha Stewart got 5 months in a federal prison and a $195,000 fine for a $285,000 illegal sale of stock. I wonder if he's nervous.

tunedeaf
I think Martha Stewart got 5 months in a federal prison and a $195,000 fine for a $285,000 illegal sale of stock. I wonder if he's nervous.

He sold after the announcement, pretty quickly after the announcement. Not sure they can touch him.

According to an article I read, some AMD's are also affected, not widespread like the Intel's but AMD is not completely out of the woods.
 

"He sold after the announcement, pretty quickly after the announcement. Not sure they can touch him."
 
If he put his sell plan in place after the issue was made public he is okay. I honestly don't know when the public was made aware that this is a significant issue (one that could very well affect stock prices).

It's pretty much all CPU's, Intel, AMD, and ARM...
 
https://www.theverge.com/...sor-bug-windows-10-fix