Don't fool yourself. Intel knew about the exploit known to us as Spectre for a long time, because they are responsible for making it. This cannot be truly patched up by some Windows and microcode updates. Unless Intel comes up with an entirely new architecture which eliminates this on hardware level, it cannot be undone. They left all their users open to external attacks for years and still charged damn premium for their chips. How can anyone justify this? If you think they are innocent, then you are either a fanboy or don't know nothing about Intel as a company....and I don't blame you. I blame them.