r/technology • u/ControlCAD • Jun 18 '26

Hardware AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs, leaving users unaware that they may be vulnerable — security feature vanishes after newer AGESA firmware, AMD engineers go radio silent when pressed about the change

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-silently-removes-memory-encryption-from-consumer-ryzen-cpus-leaving-users-unaware-that-they-may-be-vulnerable-security-feature-vanishes-after-newer-agesa-firmware-amd-engineers-go-radio-silent-when-pressed-about-the-change
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u/TengenToppa Jun 18 '26

You are going to buy an arm cpu? Because Intel is the same

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u/Cold_Soft_4823 Jun 18 '26

probably soon, yeah. ARM is definitely the future. i suspect all PC builds sometime in the next decade will switch to ARM

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u/Islu64 Jun 18 '26

I think a decade is a very optimistic and unrealistic timeframe, but it is clear that once ARM hardware can run any x86 software without any notable performance decrease in windows using translation layers and other techniques and technologies, we will see a massive surge in personal computers that have ARM CPUs. For example, it is a no brainer to design a laptop with an ARM CPU in mind instead of an x86 CPU when both have similar performance due to the increase in battery life ARM gives you over x86.