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>  - these workarounds should have a way to disable them.
> 
> Which of the two is it?

The latter clearly - because there are processors today that don't have
those problems because they are sufficiently dumb.

As for future products - you know perfectly well that none of the vendors
can answer that here because of the US laws on public companies and
forward looking statements.

Alan