Intel drops plans to develop Spectre microcode for ancient chips
Apr05

Intel drops plans to develop Spectre microcode for ancient chips

Enlarge / A Sandy Bridge wafer. Sandy Bridge is the oldest chip family that’s guaranteed to get Spectre variant 2 fixes. (credit: Intel) Intel has scaled back its plans to produce microcode updates for some of its older processors to address the “Spectre variant 2” attack. Core 2 processors are no longer scheduled to receive updates, and, while some first generation Core products have microcode updates available...

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