Intel on Thursday announced not-no-special earnings for the fourth-quarter of 2017. However, one thing that caught the attention was Intel’s assurance to fix the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities in its chips with a hardware solution. Another important point that the chip maker made was that the Meltdown and Spectre will have no material financial impact on Intel’s financials.
Meltdown and Spectre – no major impact
Reassuring the investors, Intel said that the company is working on a hardware approach to address the vulnerabilities. This was the first time in the past few weeks that Intel has talked about a hardware fix for the Meltdown and Spectre issue.
During the earnings call, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said that the company would come up with “silicon-based changes to future products that will address the Spectre and Meltdown thre