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Intel Has a New Spectre and Meltdown Firmware Patch For You To Try Out (betanews.com)
Mark Wilson writes: The Spectre/Meltdown debacle continues to rumble on, and now the chip manufacturer has announced the availability of a new 'microcode solution' to the vulnerability. The updated firmware applies to 6th, 7th and 8th Generation Intel Core devices, and the release sees the company crossing its fingers and hoping that everything works out this time.
This is Intel's second attempt at patching the vulnerability, and this time around both the company and its customers will be praying that the fix for Skylake, Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake chips actually does the job.
This is Intel's second attempt at patching the vulnerability, and this time around both the company and its customers will be praying that the fix for Skylake, Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake chips actually does the job.
Skylake launched Q3 2015. So Intel is pushing the patch for barely more than 2 years worth of product. What about the millions (billions?) of systems out there that were not replaced in the past two years? Are they going the same way of Android in the "well fuck, sucks to be you!" mentality of security because the device isn't the absolute latest and greatest? I'm thinking they only supported back that far is because there are Xeon-D CPUs that launched Q1 2018 with Skylake architecture, and Intel is all over that Xeon-D right now (this is what Facebook is now using)