Intel quietly releases Spectre fixes for Haswell and Broadwell CPUs

The fixed Spectre fixes are coming fast and furious now. Intel quietly pushed CPU firmware updates out for Haswell (4th-generation) and Broadwell (5th-generation) processors earlier this week, following in the footsteps of recent microcode patches for Skylake (6th-gen), Kaby Lake (7th-gen), and Coffee Lake (8th-gen) processors. The Broadwell and Haswell patches were designated as "in production" in Intel's recent microcode update guidance, as Tom's Hardware first noticed. Intel did not publish a...