If I'm not wrong, these are kernel patches. Intel is adding hardware (they call it in-silicon) mitigations to Meltdown (in Coffee Lake [1]) and Spectre (in Ice

If I'm not wrong, these are kernel patches. Intel is adding hardware (they call it in-silicon) mitigations to Meltdown (in Coffee Lake [1]) and Spectre (in Ice Lake[2]). This should help increase performance again, right? I'm actually waiting for Ice Lake before buying a new laptop. [1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-9th-generation-coffee-lake-refresh,37898.html https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-9th-generation-coffe... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Lake_(microarchitecture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Lake_(microarchitecture)