Intel, Microsoft confess: Meltdown, Spectre may slow your servers

It's getting hard to deny all the new and sluggish benchmarks

Analysis After spending last week insisting that the performance impact of fixing the Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities "should not be significant," Intel on Tuesday tried to maintain that stance even as it acknowledged SYSmark tests assessing post-patch slowdowns ranging from two per cent to 14 per cent."