Intel Has Asked Customers to Stop Doing This

Intel Corp. announced on Monday that it wants computer makers to stop releasing a set of faulty patches for the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws that Intel said earlier this month affected its chips.

The company has said it wants computer manufacturers as well as data center owners to stop using the current fixes for the security flaws as they can let hackers steal sensitive information from computers that are made with processors.

It was on January 11th that Intel began to roll out the patches for the flaws but patches were creating higher reboot rates in its older chips.

Intel has a new updated version that it began to send out over the weekend and it wants customers to start texting the version.

The company also said it has found the root of the cause of the reboot problem in its older Haswell and Broadwell processors.

The General manager of Intel’s data center group, Navin Shenoy, remarked, “We ask that our industry partners focus efforts on testing early versions of the updated solution so we can accelerate its release. I apologize for any disruption this change in guidance may cause.”

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