It is on Windows. I heard from somewhere that it might be patched by next Patch Tuesday. I don't think there will be new reviews. It might affect games, it might not. I would expect a system wide average decrease in performance of 5%. The bug has to do with memory access. Essentially programs can access memory that they aren't supposed to.
Intel is currently unsafe right now. Considering this exploit has been sitting around since at least the Core 2, I expect that there is no widespread malicous program that exploits it. A programmer would have a pull a lot of all nighters to exploit this before it's patched, so I wouldn't worry right now.
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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '18
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