Intel Says Firmware Fixes for Spectre and Meltdown Affecting Newer Chips

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Intel says its firmware updates for Meltdown and Spectre are causing additional reboots and hits to performance.

Intel’s efforts to issue fixes for the Spectre and Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities are still hitting some bumps in the road, a company executive said in a blog post.

“We have now issued firmware updates for 90 percent of Intel CPUs introduced in the past five years, but we have more work to do,” said Navin Shenoy, EVP and general manager of Intel’s data center group.

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