Pat Gelsinger has stated that Intel is set to ship more than one million quad-core chips before AMD ships its first. Wonder how AMD is going to combat this.
Security researchers at Symantec have discovered a new proof of concept virus that targets AMD processors rather than operating systems. Running at the processor level, the virus can evade kernel protection. The last large scale outbreak of a chip level threat dates back to 1998′s CIH/Chernobyl, which embedded itself into the flash-BIOS.