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Chinese security officials call for investigation of Intel CPUs for chip failures and security flaws, says chipmaker 'threatens national security' (www.tomshardware.com)
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[โ€“] LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'll assume that Loongson are equally as backdoored, but by Chinese intelligence rather than US intelligence.

RISC-V and OpenPOWER are the last remaining non-user-hostile ISAs. That and possibly old x86.

[โ€“] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I don't think any ISA is backdoored.

The implementations can be. But, of course, you can without any problems make a backdoored CPU with RISC-V ISA. Or with OpenPOWER.

I'd like ppc desktop hardware tbh. With OpenFirmware and all the convenience, but modern.