Intel will fix Meltdown and Specter over 90% of new products within 1 week

This article is in the series: Overview of vulnerabilities on Intel, AMD, ARM chips: Meltdown and Specter. Please read all the articles in the series to get information as well as take steps to protect your device against these two serious security holes.

Speaking at CES, CEO Brian Krzanich mentioned the biggest problem that Intel faced: security, Meltdown and Specter fix. He 'thanked them all for coming together . to overcome the newly discovered security issue, named Meltdown and Specter', and called for 'cooperation between companies'.

Brian made the promise that 'the 5-year processors will be updated 90% this week, the rest will be the end of January.' When talking about the effects of updates to machine speed, Brian repeated his previous view that depending on the task, some will be affected more. 'We also continue to work to gradually minimize the impact'.

Brian Krzanich - Intel's current CEO

'Until now, there is no information about the vulnerability being exploited to retrieve customer data,' he said. 'We are working tirelessly to fix'.

Specter and Meltdown appeared just a week before this milestone and Intel couldn't avoid talking about it. It is understandable that he insists on cooperation, they are not the only ones whose chips are faulty and the fix also needs the hands of many companies.

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2. There is an iOS and Mac update that fixes the Specter vulnerability
3. Intel claims: The new security updates help the computer "immune" to Meltdown and Specter