It affects all CPU's after and including the Skylake family, it will only affect those that have SGX turned on(off by default), but given that the current "fix" is to disable undervolting at the BIOS/micro-code level...



Thing is, its another glaring security hole, so Intel will pressure MS to bundle that micro-code into the windows micro-code DB so that Windows loads it before loading the OS, so, this will make us either live with that, or change the name of that file so that Windows wont update the micro-code during run time.



Also, will this lead to Intel flat out disabling undervolting/locking the MSR registers a lot in newer CPU's?

I would expect to see newer revisions of current models having this micro-code programmed at the factory and then nothing can be done to revert that..

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