Intel’s Meltdown fix freaked out some Broadwells, Haswells

Intel has cautioned that the fix because of the Meltdown and Spectre woes may have made PCs and servers significantly less secure.
Chipzilla has slipped a announcement into the effect that "We've received reports by a few clients of greater system reboots after implementing firmware updates" The issues have struck "Broadwell and Haswell CPUs for the customer and information centre."
Intel has stated that if it ought to make a new cure, it'll.
If new code is necessary, Intel will have to receive it the company faces numerous class actions suits. Data center operators agreeing to run unplanned maintenance won't be pleased about the correct reducing equilibrium.
Intel can take a small measure of comfort from the truth that it isn't alone with having ongoing Meltdown/Spectre concerns to manage, as AMD on Thursday affirmed that its kit is vulnerable to Spectre.
The x86 challenger isalso thankfully, resistant to collapse. The business has stated that operating system patches alone will tackle the Spectre boundaries check bypass insect. Repairing Spectre's branch goal injection defect will require firmware repairs that AMD has stated will begin to arrive at Ryzen and EPYC CPUs this past week.
The Register has also asked other host vendors how they are fixing the bugs. Oracle has patched its Linux, but has advised us it's "No comment/statement with this as of now" in response to our question about its x86 systems, x86 Linux, cloud and Solaris on x86. The no remark regarding Linux is strange since fixes for Oracle Linux landed here on January 9th.
SPARC-using Fujitsu, meanwhile, has recently released information (PDF) showing how it will cover the twin bugs from its own servers and PCs, and also stating its SPARC systems are "under investigation".
We have asked Oracle and Fujitsu to learn more and will update this story should they deliver additional details. ®