https://www.overclock3d.net/news/cpu_mainboard/intel_has_revealed_77_new_chip_vulnerabilities_one_of_which_has_a_notable_performance_impact/1
 
This month, Intel has disclosed a whooping 77 vulnerabilities that range from processors to graphics and even ethernet controllers. 67 of these bugs have been discovered by Intel internally, while outside sources uncovered ten. Many of these vulnerabilities are minor, though some others will have a notable impact on Intel's products. 

More information about these vulnerabilities is available here, with the focus of this article being a specific vulnerability called "JCC Erratum". This vulnerability impact most of Intel's recently released processors, including Coffee Lake, Amber Lake, Cascade Lake, Skylake, Whiskey lake, Comet Lake and Kaby Lake. 

This bug relates to Intel's ICache/ Decodes Streaming buffer, though the issue can be addressed with firmware. However, Intel's mitigations document for Jump Conditional Code Erratum states that the mitigation/workaround will impact performance by 0-4% excluding outliers, which means that even higher performance downsides in specific workloads. 
 
It should be interesting to see how Intel decides to overcome these vulnerabilities. 

As if I needed anymore reason to go with AMD for my next build.   I still deal with the performance loss of Spectre/Meltdown mitigations with VMs on my Haswell systems.
 
If nothing else, by the time Zen 3 launches the performance regressions from these patches and fixes will be in the OS and it will only help AMD's performance lead across the board. 
 
I hope someone at EVGA is taking a good hard look at adopting AMD platforms, because they may find Intel will soon be the smaller slice of the desktop market pie. Especially on the premium HEDT platforms.

kougar
As if I needed anymore reason to go with AMD for my next build.   I still deal with the performance loss of Spectre/Meltdown mitigations with VMs on my Haswell systems.
 
If nothing else, by the time Zen 3 launches the performance regressions from these patches and fixes will be in the OS and it will only help AMD's performance lead across the board. 
 
I hope someone at EVGA is taking a good hard look at adopting AMD platforms, because they may find Intel will soon be the smaller slice of the desktop market pie. Especially on the premium HEDT platforms.

Agreed.  I was looking forward to Cascade Lake-X, but not so sure now.  The only misgiving I have right now about jumping into Ryzen is I lose quad channel memory and step back to dual.  Maybe save a bit more and see if I can get to the Threadripper platform.

CVEs are all published publicly so if there were AMD vulnerabilities comparable you'd know about them.

AMD has its own share of problems
 
The last windows updates and a BIOS update have done much to stabilize my rig
 
at least they are fixing problems as fast as they can
 

I’m guessing a lot of these were intentionally engineered into their [intel] undocumented instruction set - for the benefit of our overseers - and are only now seeing the light of day because foreign, state-supported, hackers have discovered them.

Just a hunch...