Meltdown and Spectre processor vulnerabilities
Raghav G
- We are aware of the recent industry-wide announcement regarding vulnerabilities with certain advanced microprocessors.
- Like many other companies, we are actively reviewing the situation and working with Arm, the open source community and software partners to understand the impact and potential mitigations.
- We recommend that our customers using TI devices based on Cortex-A8, Cortex-A9, and Cortex-A15 architectures reference information available onArm’s website to determine whether their application is affected based on how it is being used. The level of action needed varies depending on the use-case of each end-product.
- It is important to understand:
- Arm has confirmed that Variant 3 (Meltdown) does not affect Cortex-A8, Cortex-A9, and Cortex-A15 architectures.
- TI DSPs and MCUs are not affected by either vulnerability (Spectre or Meltdown).