It would be truly strange if Intel 's fourth quarter had passed without Chipzilla justifying its stance on the future of the Meltdown and Spectre flaws.
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich tried to reassure investors, saying his company is working "around the clock" with its partners and there is still much to be done beyond pushing out security patches.
In the near future, Intel will make the necessary changes to its processor architecture to root out the flaws. According to Krzanich, new Intel chips released later in 2018 will be free of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. These flaws have affected almost every Intel chip released in the past decade, as well as AMD CPUs.
Krzanich said he has appointed some of Intel's best minds to tackle the issue.
Ever since the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities were publicly disclosed by the GPZ team, Intel has faced criticism from people around the world, including tech leaders like Linus Torvalds.
Questions were also raised about a $24 million stock trade made by CEO Brian Krzanich in November last year.
Intel tried to fix things by releasing software updates, but it ended up leaving users with slowed down computers. Eventually, they had to ask users not to install the updates.
