Intel may be facing as many as eight new Spectre-level vulnerabilities in its chips, a German magazine alleges.

Microsoft has released new Spectre mitigations for Windows 10, which include Intel microcode fixes for CPUs running on Windows.

AMD notified users about new available Spectre CPU firmware and Windows 10 patches.

Intel has halted patches for older chips addressing the Spectre vulnerability, according to a recent microcode update.

Microsoft is looking to target new speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities – similar to Spectre and Meltdown – with a new bug bounty program.

Intel is introducing hardware-based protections to its new chips to protect against the Spectre and Meltdown flaws that rocked the silicon industry when they were announced in early 2018.

Products receiving the most patches included Microsoft browsers and browser-related technologies such as the company’s JavaScript engine Chakra.

Researchers on Tuesday disclosed over a dozen critical security vulnerabilities in several AMD chips, opening them up for attackers who want to steal sensitive data and install malware on AMD servers, workstations and laptops.

Intel has issued stable microcode to help protect its Broadwell and Haswell chips from the Spectre Variant 2 security exploits.

Intel has issued a firmware fix to help its Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake and Skylake processors address the Spectre security flaw.