[gibsonguy]

Anyone know if Apple A9’s processor is vulnerable?

[Chgogal]

Swordmaker, your expertise is required.

[Swordmaker]

Anyone know if Apple A9’s processor is vulnerable?

As I said above in the ping:

The takeaway for the "Spectre" vulnerability is that it requires not only physical access to an Apple iPhone/IPad, but the user's passcode to be able to install malware onto the device. I quote from the description of the Spectre vulnerability potential to be exploited:

"In order to exploit the flaw the "attacker gains physical access by manually updating the platform with a malicious firmware image through flash programmer physically connected to the platform’s flash memory. "

So, due to the fact it requires physical access, and your user passcode to install the malware to be exploited, it is effectively a non-issue, like any other potential iOS malware. The problem is as usual for these iOS malware is how to get them on any users' iPhones or iPads. You have to help them do it. . . and Apple has to allow the malware into the App Store, which will not happen.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

64-bit ARM, so yep.

Spectre affects Intel, AMD, and ARM processors