Intel has almost wrapped up revised microcode updates that address unexpected reboots caused by its first attempt at mitigating the Spectre variant 2 attack. The chipmaker's recently updated microcode ...

Intel is dropping plans to patch certain CPU families affected by the Meltdown and Spectre bugs, because it's impractical or they're not widely supported. Intel's latest Microcode Revision Guidance, ...

Over several weeks, Intel has slowly been pushing out new microcode to help correct the Spectre and Meltdown security flaws in the company's microprocessors. However, some CPUs will never see these ...

In mid-March, Intel announced that it had made tremendous progress in releasing microcode updates to address the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities in its processors. At the time, Intel said that ...

An Intel Xeon 696X engineering sample has appeared in the PassMark benchmark database, but the listing raises more questions ...

Intel quietly updated its microcode update guidance (PDF) on 2 nd April. The last time we checked this document, back in mid-March, it was good news and Intel simultaneously revealed via a blog post ...

Intel reports that it has developed a stable microcode update to address the Spectre flaw for its Skylake, Kaby Lake, and Coffee Lake processors in all their various variants. The microcode updates ...

Intel has updated its microcode revision guidance document which outlines its mitigation plans for the Meltdown and Spectre CPU flaws disclosed earlier this year. Among the revelations is the fact ...

Intel is rolling out new microcode that the company claims will fix some issues related to Spectre and Meltdown side-channel vulnerabilities disclosed earlier this year. In a February 20 post, Navin ...

Intel released an update to the Meltdown and Spectre mitigation guide, revealing that it stopped working on mitigations for some processor series. The Meltdown and Spectre mitigation guide is a PDF ...

If there were a massive security flaw affecting all current Intel processors, you'd want to know about it, right? We'd like to know too, but unfortunately mum's the word from Intel on the reason for a ...

Shipping in the second half of this year, the next generation of Xeon Scalable Processors (codenamed Cascade Lake) will contain hardware fixes for the Meltdown attack and certain variants of the ...