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points by Groxx 2 days ago | 0 comments

>The device is Motorola’s first with a performant implementation of ARM Memory Tagging Extension, a new hardware caching mechanism for helping ensure system integrity and privacy.

... I don't think I've ever heard MTE described as a caching system.

Also holy shit, $1600? That's gonna be a hard no, sorry. No phone is worth that much, and I really don't want one even bigger than the too-big one I have now. Though I'll happily wait for a different model.

[–] grapheneos 2 days ago

The wording should be improved but there's a basis for what was said. Hardware support for MTE is largely implemented in the CPU cache. Qualcomm lacked MTE support due to not yet having it implemented in CPU cache. The engineering team likely gave too many details to marketing since it didn't need to mention cache.

[–] Groxx 2 days ago

Yeah, marketing misinterpretation sounds pretty likely, maybe even followed by a review with "...eehhh I mean it has a cache?" non-rejection. I've made that mistake too.