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Meltdown-Spectre firmware glitch: Intel warns of risk of sudden reboot
Intel has revealed that a glitch in its patch for the Meltdown and Spectre CPU attacks is causing problems on PCs and datacenter equipment.
Intel's firmware, which is delivered by hardware OEMs, is causing higher system reboots on systems with older Broadwell and Haswell CPUs.
"We have received reports from a few customers of higher system reboots after applying firmware updates. Specifically, these systems are running Intel Broadwell and Haswell CPUs for both client and datacenter," Nevin Shenoy, general manager of Intel's data centre group, said in a statement.
Meltdown-Spectre firmware glitch: Intel warns of risk of sudden reboots | ZDNetIntel may provide a revised firmware update to OEMs, pending the results of its investigation of customer reports.