Of course, the exploit that they've actually released is completely harmless, but it demonstrates that the CPU cache can be "poisoned" to let folks read and write into the otherwise protected SMRAM memory.

ENGADGET: New SMM exploit targets Intel CPU caching vulnerability

SSDs using NAND flash memory are capable of very fast read and write speeds and thus can make immediate use of such fast interfaces (whereas it takes many SAS HDDs working together to result in data rates even approaching there speeds).

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