Intel quietly releases Spectre fixes for Haswell and Broadwell CPUs | Droolin Dog dot Net

The fixed Spectre fixes are coming fast and furious now. Intel quietly pushed CPU firmware updates out for Haswell (4th-generation) and Broadwell (5th-generation) processors earlier this week, following in the footsteps of recent microcode patches for Skylake (6th-gen), Kaby Lake (7th-gen), and Coffee Lake (8th-gen) processors. The Broadwell and Haswell patches were designated as “in production” in Intel’s recent microcode update guidance, as Tom’s Hardware first noticed. Intel did not publish a blog post heralding their release. The company’s roadmap shows that it plans to issue fixes for processors all the way back to the decade-old Nehalem and Penryn generations. To read this article in full, please click here Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3258779/computers/intel-spectre-fix-haswell-broadwell-cpus.html#tk.rss_all Tags: > Tech and Science | #ScienceTech, #pch3lp, #TechNews, pch3lp, PCH3lp, TechNews

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