Expect More Spectre, Meltdown Variants Until Updated Chips Arrive

[…]For a company like Intel, testing would cost several million dollars and take two to three months for each iteration.

“Flat out, that’s [a complete rewrite] not gonna happen,” said Joe FitzPatrick, a hardware security researcher and trainer.[…]

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