by Alvin Lebeck on Jan 8, 2018 | Tags: ACM SIGARCH
The Year in Review The new year is upon us and it’s time to reflect on 2017 and to look ahead for 2018. We launched Computer Architecture Today with our first Welcome post on March 19, 2017. Since launch there have been 44 posts from 22 contributors, both our...
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by Simha Sethumadhavan on Jan 4, 2018 | Tags: Architecture, Hardware, Security
Two high impact microarchitectural timing attacks were disclosed yesterday. (https://nyti.ms/2EOX03d). 10000 ft overview: This is a very intricate attack but the root cause is unflushed speculative state from the cache resulting in a timing variations. Apparently the...
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