Intel releases new Spectre microcode update for Skylake; other chips remain in beta
Feb08

Intel releases new Spectre microcode update for Skylake; other chips remain in beta

Enlarge / Intel Skylake Core i7-6700K. (credit: Orestis Bastounis) After recommending customers not use its microcode fix for Broadwell and Haswell chips, Intel has issued a new microcode update for Skylake processors that gives operating systems the ability to protect against the Spectre flaw revealed earlier this year. The Spectre attacks work by persuading a processor’s branch predictor to make a specific bad prediction. This...

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