It may be a bittersweet message for IT and InfoSec teams who have been installing Intel's CPU update for the last week and a half or so.
Intel heard from customers that the Spectre and Meltdown fix was making a slew of Intel powered machines auto-reboot too many times. And Red Hat customers reported the opposite problem this week.
Now Intel has issued new guidance to those still implementing the CPU security fix.
"We recommend that OEMs, cloud service providers, system manufacturers, software vendors and end users stop deployment of current versions, as they may introduce higher than expected reboots and other unpredictable system behavior," says Navin Shenoy, executive vice president and general manager of the Data Center Group at Intel Corporation.
Frustrating news for IT and cybersecurity teams who have seen their updates work well. But there is some good news for companies who have experienced the "unpredictable system behavior" as Intel is calling it.
"We have now identified the root cause for Broadwell and Haswell platforms, and made good progress in developing a solution to address it. Over the weekend, we began rolling out an early version of the updated solution to industry partners for testing, and we will make a final release available once that testing has been completed."
Intel also released some productivity impact test results in the last week, which you can read about here.
