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Intel Ready To Rollout Spectre Fix For Haswell and Broadwell
Intel Continues to Rollout Fixed Spectre Microcode Last November, Intel learned about the new Spectre and Meltdown bugs. Since then, the company has been scrambling to issue bug fixes to mitigate the flaws. After stumbling a lot out of the gate, Intel has managed to find their footing. Following on…
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Intel Releases Fixed Spectre Patch For Post-Skylake CPUs
Intel Patch Fixes Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake Earlier this year, Spectre and Meltdown rocked the CPU world. Intel has been working hard for a fix but unfortunately, the first fixes caused more problems than they solved. In fact, the bug fixes caused so many issues that Intel decided to pull back…
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Intel Releases Updated Spectre Patch for Skylake Only
Intel Fixes Spectre Patch for Skylake Early this year, the Spectre and Meltdown bugs blew up the CPU world. After discovering the flaw in November, Intel has been working hard for a fix. Unfortunately for Intel the first fixes they pushed out caused more problems than they solved. In fact, the…
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Windows Patch Kills Buggy Intel Spectre Fix Microcode
Supplementary Intel Fix Causes More Harm Than Good Last month, the Spectre and Meltdown bugs took the CPU world by storm. Intel was hit the hardest with both Spectre and Meltdown affecting their CPUs. AMD and ARM also got hit but not as bad. To mitigate the issue, Microsoft issued OS level…
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AMD Promises In-Silicon Fix for Spectre Flaw on New CPUs
AMD’s Commitment to Security Unlike Intel’s CPUs which are vulnerable to both Spectre and Meltdown, AMD thankfully only has Spectre to worry about. Due to the memory configuration of AMD’s platform, it is virtually impossible for the Meltdown flaw to affect it. Spectre comes in three variants and the GPZ…
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Intel Promises Spectre and Meltdown “In-Silicon” Fixes For 2018
Intel Promises Hardware Fix By 2019 Spectre and Meltdown have been rocking the CPU landscape over the past couple of weeks. The CPU industry is not new to hardware bugs but Meltdown, in particular, has serious consequences. The worst hit CPU vendor is Intel, with all Cores series and later chips…
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Intel Haswell and Broadwell Reboot Issue Cause Identified
Several days ago, Intel disclosed issues surrounding the update for fixing the recent Meltdown and Spectre flaws are actually causing problems on some systems. This update works perfectly fine on Skylake, Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake systems. However, it appears to be problematic for those on Broadwell or Haswell. Specifically,…
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Intel Security Fix Causing Reboot Issues on Haswell/Broadwell
Intel processors are the most hard hit with the the recent Meltdown and Spectre flaw revelations. Now it appears that the security firmware update designed to address the flaw is causing some issues for others. Specifically, those with Broadwell or Haswell CPUs experiencing reboot problems. This affects not just those…
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Microsoft Detail Slowdown On Intel With Spectre & Meltdown Fix
Microsoft Detail Potential Intel Slowdowns The Spectre and Meltdown security concerns at the kernel level of Intel processors have been a significant concern. Ironically, not because of the actual security breach, although that is rather worrying. The major problem most people will have with it will ironically be the fix.…
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