Intel said media-related security problems are caused by flaws and that the coverage of the product's related security issues is inaccurate. Other companies have the same problems with their chips.
Earlier, the Register article said that fixing a serious security flaw in the Intel chip patch software will affect the chip performance.Because of this report has a broad market impact, today's regular trading, Intel shares fell as much as 6%, AMD Once the price rose more than 8% .Media reported that AMD chips will not be affected by this problem.
Intel said the same problem exists with other company chips, Intel said in a statement. "Recently the media reported that the security issue was caused by a" flaw, "and that it only made sense to affect Intel's chip. According to the current analysis, many types of computing devices - configuring multiple different company processors and running different operating systems - are also affected by these security issues. "
The statement said Intel's plan is to "solve this issue quickly and constructively."
The security issue, in addition to affecting PCs, affects public cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, which allow users to rent Intel chips and run their own applications on Windows and Linux, according to the Register .
According to Michael Larabel, a Phoronix executive who tested the Linux patch, patch software can 'reduce the system performance by 1-2 digits.' The performance of running games on a PC seems unaffected by the patch software , The performance of running databases such as PostgreSQL and Redis will decrease moderately.
Intel also mentioned performance issues in its statement. "Contrary to some media coverage, any performance degradation depends on the load, which is not a serious performance degradation for the average user. Over time, the performance impact will be Be relieved.
Intel said it plans to discuss the security issue next week, with "more software and firmware updates available".
The incident could cost Intel even litigation, as Stacy Rasgon, an analyst at Bernstein, a market research firm, also mentioned in a report Wednesday.
AppleInsider published an article saying that Apple has been busy modifying the loopholes affecting macOS; the Register article said that Microsoft is already in the process of testing the Windows update package to fix the problem.
Google, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft did not comment.
Intel recommends that users, 'work with operating system developers or system builders to install the patches they release as soon as possible.'