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Intel Issues Meltdown, Spectre Patches For Newer CPUs
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Intel announced that it has already started issuing updates to five-year-old CPUs or newer, which should include the Ivy Bridge generation, which came out in 2012, and later. However, we know from the researchers who discovered Meltdown that the bug affects Intel CPUs at least as old as 2011, and potentially all the CPUs Intel has built since 1995, with a few exceptions.
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The Google researchers also said that Spectre affects virtually all CPUs, including those from Intel, AMD, and ARM.
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I guess I should be thankful that I am on an Ivy Bridge CPU? But there are obviously a few older computers at home that are still perfectly functional -- I think the oldest one is a Core 2 Duo. So they are left out in the dust even though they are still good for their intended purposes as mostly web serving and simple office application machines?
Smh...
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