If Intel wasn't already in enough trouble with AMD's constant onslaught of products with Ryzen and now Ryzen ThreadRipper, the company is now going to have a huge storm surrounding it over a newly-discovered flaw in Intel's Skylake and Kaby Lake architectures with Hyper-Threading.
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Microsoft have now reversed their decision regarding 6th Gen Intel Skylake processors only running on Windows 10 and so support under Windows 7 and 8.1 is now possible.
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