Intel Chip Flaws Nicknamed Spectre and Meltdown Compromise Security

The Intel Company, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of microchips, has recently been beset by the discovery of flaws on its chips that allegedly have compromised most computers manufactured five years prior to the turn of the millennium up to the present.

These flaws have been nicknamed Spectre and Meltdown and cause significant security issues.

What is an IC or Chip?

An integrated circuit (IC) is a small piece of silicon or other material allowing for semiconducting. It contains a set of electronic circuits. They are often referred to as microchips or just chips in the computing world.

The Intel chips with flaws now referred to as Spectre and Meltdown allow data miners to retrieve sensitive information from the memory of computer applications that remain running.

Some of this critical data could include personally identifiable information (PII), in that it may include personal and business emails, documents, and user names and passwords from password manager applications. Password manager data could hold the key to accessing business and personal financial records.

The Intel Company created a supposed solution to the problem of the Spectre and Meltdown flaws. It came up with an installable software remedy that, according to the reports of many consumers, did more to accentuate computer issues than solve them.

After installing the alleged remedy, consumers reported a painful slowdown in the function of their computer hardware—resulting in high frustration.

As complaints poured into the Intel Company regarding this installable software remedy for the microchip flaws of Spectre and Meltdown, it eventually acknowledged that even the fix was faulty.

In their press release, they asked people to stop installing the software patch. Intel admitted that the solution to Spectre and Meltdown not only slowed computer processing units (CPU’s), but often caused them to spontaneously shutdown and reboot several times.

It is important to note just how widespread the Spectre and Meltdown flaws are. Because of the sheer size and success of the Intel Company, it is likely that most computers made in 1995 up until the current day are affected to one degree or another.

News of the flaws have incentivized many people and businesses out of self and client protection to invest in the remedy, labor to install and/or new computer hardware altogether.

Since the latest admission of remedy failure on Jan. 22, 2018, there has been a growing trend of class action lawsuits being filed against the Intel Company.

Some of the central arguments behind these legal actions are that individuals, families and small and large companies have been forced to lay out exorbitant amounts of money to buy fixes for their compromised equipment, the electrical energy to run machines operating slower and poorly, and/or money to buy new computers or upgrade existing CPUs.

If you have purchased a computer in the last few years and attempted to install chip-fixing software only to discover that it caused further processing problems, you may have a case worth pursuing, Fill out our form and an expert product liability lawyer will be in touch to discuss your case.

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If you or your company were negatively affected by the Intel processor defect, including suffering damages caused by installing the Intel software patch, you may have a legal claim.

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