Intel has microcode updates for modern CPUs and fixed silicon for late 2018
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Back in January, Intel's CEO Brian Krzanich wrote an open letter promising speedy Spectre and Meltdown patches. He later on remarked that the company's first products to "address the Spectre and Meltdown threats in hardware" would show up this year. Today, Krzanich authored a blog post that says the company has microcode updates ready for all of its products released in the past five years, and that CPUs with "hardware-based protection" for the security flaws will launch toward the end of 2018.
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