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Intel releases stable Spectre patches for Skylake PCs, recovering from a bad bout of bugs |
February 08, 2018
If you own a Skylake-based PC and receive a patch to address the Spectre vulnerabilities, install it—Intel has greenlit the code.About two weeks after Intel recommended users halt or roll back Spectre and Meltdown patches because of system instability, the company disclosed that it has shipped new code to its PC partners that solves the problems of the earlier, buggy patch.Right now, though, the new patches address just a subset of the affected users: specifically those who own Skylake-based Core or Core m processors. On January 22, Intel said it had begun testing a fix for Haswell and Broadwell PCs, though Intel has not rolled that final patch code to its partners. An Intel spokesman didn’t immediately respond to an emailed question about when those patches would be available, though an Intel blog post said it would patch "more platforms in the coming days."To read this article in full, please click here
Link: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3253956/components-processors/intel-releases-stable-spectre-patches-for-skylake-pcs.html#tk.rss_all
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