[javajosh]

This will be true until something uses Meltdown in the wild to cause massive damage. When a digital superflu comes, businesses and individuals will be faced with a choice: continue to use Intel and be vulnerable to a flu that is literally wiping out businesses, exchanges, hospitals, etc or replace ALL of their hardware with AMD.

Interestingly, I think AMD has a lot of motive to create such a superflu, or at least encourage it's creation.

[bmer]

If AMD were proved to have been involved in the creation of such malware, to what extent could they be litigated against?

[javajosh]

Well, it would be highly illegal (and immoral) to create such a program, regardless of who did it.