18 January 2018
Spectre and Meltdown
What we told customers after the January 2018 CPU side-channel disclosures.
On 6 January 2018 Google Project Zero disclosed Spectre and Meltdown, hardware issues on then-current Intel and AMD CPUs. Microsoft and Apple shipped OS mitigations; a permanent fix needed new silicon. Patches could cost some performance on older PCs.
We applied vendor patches on the systems we ran for customers. This page is kept as the original URL.