Presumably the launch date, Intel lists launch dates for all of their processors on ark.intel.com [1] 5 years is Haswell, so Haswell and newer should get the m

Presumably the launch date, Intel lists launch dates for all of their processors on ark.intel.com [1] 5 years is Haswell, so Haswell and newer should get the microcode fix. A 3 year old computer is likely to have a CPU no more than 4 years old, but you can look it up to verify. (Both Windows and Linux can show the CPU model, and Intel's Ark site gives the release date.) [1] https://ark.intel.com/products/series/75023/4th-Generation-Intel-Core-i7-Processors https://ark.intel.com/products/series/75023/4th-Generation-I...