Intel's 8th gen CPUs bring a new hardware design to block Spectre & Meltdown
The Spectre and Meltdown security vulnerabilities affected many computers worldwide. Microsoft and Intel already rolled out a series of patches to fix the problem.
However, these security updates only treat the symptoms, not the cause. As a result, some of them caused more harm than good, and Intel even advised users to refrain from installing them.
Intel’s making some hardware design changes Intel quickly realized that it needs to do more that rolling out some updates if it really wants to mitigate these threats for good.