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by QAPereo 3086 days ago
Yes. They’re facing potentially ruinous class actions from individuals, and the legal fury of uncounted corporations which are going to suffer. It’s hard to imagine Intel dying, but if the impact on performance is so enormous, it could happen. So yes, they are in ass-covering-survival-mode. Having said that, I wouldn’t expect Intel to go down in legal flames, but the endless PR dripping is going to have to become a flood for a long time to recover.