Intel has released a new round<\/a> of CPU microcode updates that address the Spectre variant #2 CPU vulnerability that now include older processor microarchitectures (all the way back to Haswell<\/a>). There is always a delay between when Intel makes these updates available and when the system vendors and motherboard manufacturers do their validation and release BIOS updates.<\/font><\/p>\n A number of system vendors and motherboard manufacturers have special sites where you can more easily locate the latest BIOS update for your system. You should make a point of periodically checking to see if any BIOS updates are available for your systems. Here is a list of some of the more popular vendors:<\/font><\/p>\n ASRock<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n ASUS<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n Dell<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n Dell (Server)<\/font><\/p>\n Gigabyte<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n HP<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n HPE<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n Lenovo<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n MSI<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n I have written quite a bit<\/a> about Spectre and Meltdown, including my latest article for SQLPerformance.com<\/a> here<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n Intel has released a new round of CPU microcode updates that address the Spectre variant #2 CPU vulnerability that now include older processor microarchitectures (all the way back to Haswell). There is always a delay between when Intel makes these updates available and when the system vendors and motherboard manufacturers do their validation and release […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,377,24,343,376],"tags":[366,367],"class_list":["post-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sql-server-hardware","category-meltdown","category-processors","category-security","category-spectre","tag-meltdown","tag-spectre"],"yoast_head":"\n
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