While Intel continues to play down the slowing effect the patches for Meltdown and Spectre can have on machines using their CPUs, Microsoft has finally shared some – though still not definite – indicators of the possible outcomes.While Intel continues to play down the slowing effect the patches for Meltdown and Spectre can have on machines using their CPUs, Microsoft has finally shared some – though still not definite – indicators of the possible outcomes.

After pointing out that, along with a Windows update, a silicon microcode update will also be needed in order to mitigate Variant 2 of the Spectre attack (branch target injection), Terry Myerson, Executive Vice President of the Windows and Devices Group, said that many of the benchmarks published so far do not include both OS and silicon updates.

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