Google's 'moonshot' fix for the hardest-to-solve of the three Meltdown and Spectre CPU attacks seems to have paid off. That fix, called Retpoline, addresses Variant 2 of the two Spectre CPU attacks ...

When Spectre Variant 2 patches rolled out this year, some servers, particularly those with older Intel CPUs, saw performance declines. Google is working with MS to make sure we get that performance ...

Intel's upcoming microcode updates to address the just-revealed Spectre variant 4 attack are likely to put a significant drain on CPU performance. Intel has anticipated questions about performance ...

There's a clear winner when AMD and Intel go head to head in performance comparisons in Linux with all Spectre, Meltdown, Foreshadow, and other fixes applied. Intel loses a lot of performance in these ...