Intel Didn’t Reveal Chip Flaws To Authorities First

It has been revealed that US authorities found out about the Spectre and Meltdown chip flaws from media reports rather than being informed directly by US computer chip manufacturer Intel.

What Chip Flaws?

Back in January, researchers from Google's Project Zero, the Technical University of Graz in Austria and the security firm Cerberus Security in Germany, discovered that two major security flaws are present in nearly all modern processors / microchips. The hardware flaws were dubbed ‘Spect...