Quote Originally Posted by JF-AMD View Post
There is just a point where taking a position becomes more of liability than a benefit. Security is not the thing I would want to hang my hat on because everyone knows that there will be errata and issues that you need to resolve. A critical microcode patch makes the "most secure data center processor" tag a little harder to believe.

There are a lot of things in their processors that you can talk about that are good, I have never been a big fan of hanging my hat on security because a.) there are always errata (processors are complex) and b.) so much of security is outside of the processor's control.
You probably don't like it but a fact is a fact - CPU which has AES instruction and can handle security algorithms 6-8 times faster is better suited for some type of workloads. Now it seems that you're mixing up a different things. Not every errata causes for security breach. And while I have no hard statistic, I still have a filling that things like microcode update happens not so rarely by both firms. Just this time someone choose to disclose internal information intended to OEMs.