Intel Says Newer Chips Also Hit by Unwanted Reboots After Patch (zdnet.com)

Intel says the unexpected reboots triggered by patching older chips affected by Meltdown and Spectre are happening to its newer chips, too. From a report: Intel confirmed in an update late Wednesday that not only are its older Broadwell and Haswell chips tripping up on the firmware patches, but newer CPUs through to the latest Kaby Lake chips are too. The firmware updates do protect Intel chips against potential Spectre attacks, but machines with Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Skylake, and Kaby Lake architecture processors are rebooting more frequently once the firmware has been updated, Intel said. Intel has also updated its original Meltdown-Spectre advisory with a new warning about the stability issues and recommends OEMs and cloud providers test its beta silicon microcode updates before final release. These beta releases, which mitigate the Spectre Variant 2 CVE-2017-5715 attack on CPU speculative execution, will be available next week.

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Windows? Linux? Mac?

[Anonymous Coward]

Can you be more specific? Which OSes are rebooting?

Hardware now faulting, hello warranty.

[Fly Swatter]

If it used to work without 'reboots', and now it is failing within the hardware, is this not a defect under warranty? Not that they would have a 'working' replacement at this point.

Yes I read Intels warranty, and they will deny you, but in theory this is no longer an errata and plain old defective behavior until they release an update to mitigate the failure caused by the vulnerability mitigation.

Quite frankly Intel is trying to get something out way too fast, and is looking even worse for it.