Intel Issues Meltdown/Spectre Fixes For Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge As Patch Effort Winds Down

If you own an Intel processor that you bought less than eight years ago, chances are that Intel has issued a Spectre/Meltdown patch for it.

- Mark Hachman

Intel’s revised patches for its Ivy Bridge and Sandy Bridge processor families have begun rolling out to address Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. With the release of the new code, just a few older processor families remain in the patch queue.

According to Intel’s microcode update document, patches for several processor families have entered production, most notably the second-generation Core (Sandy Bridge) and third-generation Core (Ivy Bridge) families. The patches also cover several, more niche architectures, such as the Gladden Xeon of the Sandy Bridge generation, and the Broadwell Xeon chips.