Spectre and Meltdown fixes will be introduced in new Intel 8th Gen CPUs launching late 2018

Intel’s CEO, Brian Krzanich, has just published a blog post regarding the Spectre and Meltdown security exploits, and how Intel are going to continue mitigating their effects. Interestingly he also mentions specific hardware fixes being introduced to new 8th Gen Core CPUs shipping in the second half of the year. Could he mean the almost mythical Coffee Lake Core i9?

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The Spectre and Meltdown security bugs came to light via Google’s Project Zero analysis at the start of the year and showed three different variants of attack (Variants 1 and 2 were named Spectre and Variant 3 Meltdown), which could offer a backdoor into a machine’s system memory.

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