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It's inherently not vulnerable to the Spectre/Meltdown family of attacks. They rely on speculative, out-of-order execution on modern CPUs, but Itanium is an in-order core with very limited (and software-controlled) speculation.

It's actually not vulnerable to a bunch of other attacks as well (e.g. a buffer overflow cannot overwrite the return address on Itanium).



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