Older AMD cpu/mobo or up to date Intel cpu/mobo?

[dngray (Daniel Gray)]

@anon33089522

I see that bios/uefi vulnerabilities are getting more common e.g. Logofail, Pixiefail

These are independent of CPU platform.

@anon33089522

I saw statistics somewhere that intel cpus had 240 vulnerabilities compared to only 20 for AMD in one year

Not sure if you saw the most recent one ‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections

Number of vulnerabilities doesn’t necessarily mean the platform is more vulnerable, and might mean it gets more testing.

@anon33089522

not even taking into account intel ME

Just so you know AMD have an equivalent to ME and it’s required to initialize the CPU so it’s not worth worrying about discussed quite thorougly.

@anon33089522

some youtube videos stating that intel cpus have some vulnerabilities that are unfixable

YouTube is not a good source of information for this kind of thing because you’ll mostly get privacy people just repeating what they read online.

@anon33089522

which is better - to be with new supported intel cpu (but it will have more vulnerabilities even if supported) or to stick with older AMD cpu which will be EOL soon but atleast it is not riddled with vulnerabilities out of the box

Possibly has vulnerabilities nobody has discovered yet. TLDR it’s the wrong question, just apply your microcode updates and don’t worry about it too much.

As for BIOS/Firmware updates, you’re going to have to look at laptops and boards aimed at more long term usage, of course that kind of support will cost more.