All the answers at [this Stack Exchange post](https://security.stackexchange.com/q/177100) are too abstruse and complex. Can someone please by relying on, but variating, u/zoox101’s [excellent analogy](https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/7o0kb4/eli5_what_is_this_major_security_flaw_in_the/ds67a99/)?
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OK, here is my shot at a ELI5.
You have two cars. One made by Chevy, one made by Ford. Both cars are 4 door sedans, blue, have tires, same size engine, etc.
The Chevy one gets a recall because of a flaw in the computer that can cause you to get bad gas mileage, but the Ford doesn’t. Why? Because two different teams of engineers made the two different cars and programmed the two different computers.
AMD has it’s set of engineers that work on it’s processors and the microcode. Intel has it’s set of engineers that work on it’s processors and the microcode. For Meltdown and Spectre, Intel’s engineers made a really bad boo boo. AMD’s engineers didn’t do as bad. AMD’s code is better and not as vulnerable.
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