Intel “Downfall” CPU Vulnerability Leads To Class-Action Lawsuit By Consumers

Intel has been pulled into a lawsuit by consumers, claiming that the chipmaker was aware of the Downfall vulnerabilities & still sold chips in the market. Lawsuit By Intel CPU Users Reveal That Team Blue Was Aware About The Potential Existence of Downfall, Yet It Did Nothing Before we go into the lawsuit, let's recap on what Downfall is. As covered previously, the vulnerability specifically affects workloads utilizing the AVX2/AVX-512 gather instructions. Intel disclosed that "Downfall" had a greater impact on older-gen Tiger Lake/ Ice Lake lineups. In easy words, the vulnerability reveals hardware registry contents, potentially leading to large-scale […]

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