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submitted 3 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/amd@lemmy.zip

The feature was quietly removed through a firmware update on some non-PRO Ryzen CPUs.

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[-] Mihies@programming.dev 16 points 3 days ago

Luckily that guy noticed soon enough

Yea, but what about next time?

It should be illegal to cripple the things that we buy after the fact. In any way.

[-] Mihies@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

From what I read this is somewhat a gray area - AMD never stated that non pro CPUs support it, even though they do and they should. Anyway, it was a dick move.

If you don't want people to have it, ship without it, though.

[-] Mihies@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, who knows the reason behind it. Perhaps using same design to lower costs and then they didn't disable it or something.

And that shouldn't be allowed.

[-] fonix232@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago

if that was a hard law, many of the various execution prediction exploit prevention fixes couldn't have happened, as those fixes technically cripple performance...

I think there is a meaningful difference in this case.

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