Specter Phantom, Meltdown Fuse loopholes recently made Intel a lot of trouble, because in recent years the products exist in groups, need to be repaired one by one, the workload is really rare, but also during the frequent reboot after patching phenomenon.
Prior to this, Intel has pushed the two loopholes in the repair patch to the sixth generation of Corela Skylake, seven generations of Core Kaby Lake, eighth-generation Core Duo Corey Core family of enthusiasts and to solve the frequent restart problem.
Specter specter loopholes are actually two versions, CVE-2017-5715 can be resolved through software updates, CVE-2017-5053 you must be hardware-level repair, seven generations of Core Duo has been completed.
just now, Intel again to the fourth generation of Core Haswell, fifth generation of the Broadwell family issued a patch to patch the second Specter loopholes, and stressed that it is a stable patch, that should not lead to a restart.
Haswell first released in 2013, the following year conducted a speed upgrade, so the product is particularly large.
Broadwell is the product of 2015, but most are mobile platforms, only two on the desktop, so the impact is relatively small.
