diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
index e8f914d942..c79cf0b6de 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
@@ -69,6 +69,3 @@ dev-util/checkbashisms
 =sys-devel/gcc-7.3.0
 =cross-aarch64-cros-linux-gnu/gcc-7.3.0 ~arm64
 =cross-x86_64-cros-linux-gnu/gcc-7.3.0 ~amd64
-
-# Accept the fixed Intel microcode for Spectre mitigation.
-=sys-firmware/intel-microcode-20180312 ~amd64