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![]() Where are the lawsuits against AMD, or other chip makers, then? Maybe they’re still to come, and perhaps these initial lawsuits were formulated back at the start of the week when all the blame was wholly pinned on Intel for subjecting its customers to these twin vulnerabilities. As we saw this morning, Apple admitted that not just its Mac computers were affected, but also iOS devices. ![]() Indeed, Spectre looms large for pretty much all modern CPUs – not just Intel, but AMD, and ARM-based chips in mobile devices (SoCs from the likes of Qualcomm and Samsung). It’s interesting that Intel has been singled out to be put in the legal firing line when Spectre doesn’t only affect Intel processors (as is the case with Meltdown). ![]() That in itself is an arguable point, because others, such as prominent members of Google’s Project Zero, have noted that one of the vulnerabilities (Spectre) can’t actually be patched up via a security fix as it’s a fundamental chip design problem – one that might not be fully solvable until next-gen chips hit the market. Gerard Stranch, managing partner of BS&J, one of the firms which is filing the Californian suit, commented: “We look forward to holding Intel responsible for exposing millions of Americans to unnecessary data security risks, and will lead the charge to ensure that Intel corrects these flaws as quickly as possible.”Īs you may have seen, Intel came out yesterday with a statement assuring the general computing public that its next batch of security updates for its processors would make them ‘immune’ to these exploits. ![]()
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