Intel 15th Gen CPUs to Get Rentable Units: Why Hyper-Threading is Going Away

Harware Times ^ | 14 August 2023 | Areej

[bobcat62]

Can I have my new x86 heat a cup of coffee while downloading?

[Angelino97]

The NSA used its influence to fabricate a story so the project was abandoned and we ended up with AES which given enough time, the NSA can break.

So then, the Intel CPU is vulnerable to NSA snoping?

[BlueMondaySkipper]

This limitation and bad approach to threading is why the IBM Power chips (with true multi-threading) eat the Intel based systems for lunch on the big machines. On the IBM gear you can indeed run 8 threads simultaneously. In fact, on the current processor (Power 10), the default doesn’t even dispatch a thread to the 2nd CPU until the first two threads are being used on the 1st one.

[Zathras]

It means all systems that use AES256 encryption is vulnerable.
RSA 8k is probably bulletproof or ProtonMail for now.