However, the press release starts with: > Over the past several days, Intel has made further progress to address the exploits known as “Spectre” and “Meltdown.

However, the press release starts with: > Over the past several days, Intel has made further progress to address the exploits known as “Spectre” and “Meltdown.” Then it goes on to say: > Generally speaking, the workloads that incorporate a larger number of user/kernel privilege changes and spend a significant amount of time in privileged mode will be more adversely impacted. All of this implies that they're testing a fixed kernel.