Meltdown and Specter loopholes in the global disaster, so that Intel, AMD, ARM, IBM and other companies are busy plugging, because of the highest penetration, Intel is the most burdensome.
After announcing the perfect fix to Skylake processor platform, Intel still has a lot of work to do.
During this period, the user's opposition did not disappear.
According to foreign media reports, In an annual report to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Intel said it is currently facing 30 consumer suits and two securities class actions as a result of the loopholes.
Consumer litigation claims monetary damages, while class actions argue that Intel and certain officials violated securities laws to disclose false or misleading security breach information about Intel's product controls.
In addition, in January 2018, three Intel shareholders, Joseph Tola, Joanne Bicknese and Michael Kellogg, summoned Intel CEOs to the supreme law without any name, arguing that they were misbehaving in selling stock routs before the loopholes were disclosed.
Intel said they will continue to defend their rights, and that the purpose of these litigation are not simple.The giant also pointed out that in the future may have more pending pending responses, the possible financial impact of uncertainty.
Data show that Intel products, the last two relatively large quality BUG was 1994 Pentium FDIV (floating point addition) BUG, was spent 475 million US dollars recall process; the second is the 2011 SNB chipset Cougar Point (P67 Platform) SATA leakage, lost 700 million US dollars.
