Stefan Mileschin

Fails to get Meltdown and Spectre cases thrown out

Chipzilla will have to go to court and defend itself against claims it knew its microprocessors were defective and failed to tell customers.

Judge Michael Simon, of the US District Court of Oregon, partially denied the tech giant's motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit arising from the 2018 public disclosure of Meltdown and Spectre, the family of data-leaking chip microarchitecture design blunders.

To defend against Meltdown and Spectre, Intel and other affected vendors have had to add software and hardware mitigations that for some workloads make patched processors mildly to significantly slower. The disclosure of related flaws has continued since that time, as researchers develop variations on the initial attacks and find other parts of chips that similarly expose privileged data. It is a problem that still is not entirely solved.

https://fudzilla.com/news/54288-inte...efective-chips