For Intel, it's a enterprise marketing bullet, for the rest of us it's an opportunity to secure our systems the way we want, however that capacity has been denied us.
The ideal security mechanism would provide us with a per cpu key from Intel, which we use to update our own user key to the cpu, and only user signed firmware is loaded.
The exact mechanism of this can be handled in many ways.
Right now, we locked out, and primed for being snooped on without our consent.
I like Intel's engineering, but everything else I could do without.
And ARM is no better. I'd say worse actually, but I'm not going to defend that.
Please, please, AMD do the "right thing" with Zen. Allow us to be in command of our security, so we may delegate it to those we trust with the technical know how, be it OS vendors, or our IT departments, or our own selves.
I believe building reliable, internet-scale services on such hardware is impossible. Having single bit errors, which are hardly rare [0], silently propagate is a recipe for disaster.
I applaud Scaleway for the foresight of building custom, sale-out hardware, however, that this is their second effort and still lacking in ECC use is very, very, disappointing.
I would love to use this hardware, it's almost the perfect design, but it's tragically flawed as is.
(Not a physicist) So what's the result of applying Feynman's axioms to the analysis of whatever gedanken experiment that lead Einstein to special relativity? Does it further enlighten whatever paradox existed that required a resolution via special relativity?
This is an article by Freeman Dyson from the Feb 2009 issue of Notices of the AMS. He explains the necessity of both birds, those that explore in breadth, and frogs, those that explore in depth.
Yes, the bar is low in VPS land, but you could certainly do much better at presenting yourselves properly.