AMD also gets sued for Spectre
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fantaskarsef
Not surprised.
KissSh0t
Who doesn't like free money?
sverek
Unfortunately, AMD did release mobile CPUs after leak been confirmed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:AMD_Ryzen_Mobile
So yeah, that one might be annoying.
Do lawers just toss money in their pocket, or they clients (AMD clients) to share with?
fantaskarsef
Well, at least how it reads, it's in the name of shareholders. I guess it's about how much they get when selling their stocks now. Not sure how that works in detail when it comes to compensation. The only thing I'm sure of is that the lawyers get their money, no matter what.
warlord
Well, that's fair. AMD lied. Cheap moves against Intel got back at them like a boomerang. Karma is a bitch huh?
Stormyandcold
Unbelievable.
fantaskarsef
kruno
AlmondMan
Significant loss yet AMD stocks are higher now than they have been in quite a while 😛
AlmondMan
Glottiz
xIcarus
fantaskarsef
David3k
Ken Hagan from the comments of this article on The Register:
...and reading the reports of this whole thing in its entirety, that's basically what this is: people who wished for premature disclosure before mitigations were in place just so that they could profit, damned be the security impact of a disclosed exploit with no protections ready.
user1
well the linked article on theregister is gone , guess i wont be reading that lol,
not sure how they are gonna prove amd did anything wrong, spectre isn't even based on a hw bug, its the consquence of how the effected processors function normally. and amd chose its words very carefully, when speaking about it .
hard to say how this will go.
fantaskarsef
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/17/amd_investors_sue_over_chip_flaw_silence/
Only article I found, but it does not contain the above quote.
SSD_PRO
NaturalViolence
gdmaclew
Scumbag lawyers.
fantaskarsef