Meltdown, Spectre and Embedded Processors

[Merucial]

I have some smart home automation projects using the Intel Galileo and Intel Edison processors and I am now considering switching embedded processors due to the recent events surrounding the Meltdown and Spectre bugs.

Does anybody know whether the Intel, AMD and ARM Meltdown and Specte bus affect the Intel Edison, Galileo and other computers in their now discontinued IoT family. Could this be a reason why the Intel IoT devices have been discontinued?

Given that the Beaglebone Black and Raspberry Pi embedded kits use ARM processors are they also vulnerable?

 

[VincentHanna]

I seriously don't anyone wants to hack in to your home automation.

 

[Delvis]

Can't seen anything specifically relating to the edison and galileo stuff.... Samsung and Qualcomm processors may be at risk also though (ARM)

 

[Stelly]

I would be surprised if they are not effected by this, I bet they use the same predictive pre-processing as other Intel CPUs.

Stelly

 

[Armageus]

Wouldn't like to say for sure, but from the Quark (core used by Galileo and Edison) data sheet, I would think it's an issue:

1.2.2 System Memory Controller Features
• Single channel DDR3 memory controller with ECC support
• 16-bit data bus
• Supports up to two ranks total
• Supports DDR3 with 800 MT/s data rates
• x8 DRAM device data width
• 1 Gbit, 2 Gbit, and 4 Gbit DRAM device densities
• Total memory size from 128 Mbyte to 2 Gbyte
• Supports different physical mappings of bank addresses to optimize performance
• Out-of-order request processing to increase performance
• Aggressive power management to reduce power consumption
• Proactive page closing policies to close unused pages
• Supports soldered down DRAM devices

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/embedded/products/quark/quark-x1000-datasheet.html

 

[V F]

I seriously don't anyone wants to hack in to your home automation.

The same people that do it for the Lulz?

 

[LePhuronn]

I seriously don't anyone wants to hack in to your home automation.

Or those who'll nab your WiFi credentials ready for a proper infiltration.