Intel ships (hopefully stable) microcode for Skylake, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake
Enlarge / Intel Core i9 X-series Skylake X. (credit: Intel) 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 help address Spectre variant 2 attacks. Spectre variant 2 attacks work by persuading a processor’s branch predictor to make a specific bad prediction about which code will be...