Intel: We now won't ever patch Spectre variant 2 flaw in these chips

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But while it's rolled out updates for all processors launched in the past five years, it has now revealed some older CPUs won't be patched at all. Intel's latest Microcode Revision Guidance, dated April 2, applies a new 'stopped' status to several CPU product families for which it had been developing ...

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