Brian Krzanich announced that new Intel chips will arrive in 2018 which are immune to Spectre and Meltdown.
This may offer the first really compelling reason to update thier Intel systems. This news could be signIce Lake will arrive earlier than expected, both to resolve their architectural flaws and as a counter to AMD’s Ryzen 2nd gen and ThreadRipper.
Krzanich said his company has assigned some of its best minds to work on the problem, which also affects Intel-powered servers. So far, the company has already released firmware fixes for 90 percent of the Intel CPUs introduced in the last five years. But the patching process hasn’t gone smoothly.
It is also unknown what effect the changes will have on the performance of these chips
