英特尔正在回应有关该公司处理器存在安全缺陷的指控，软件修复可能会降低个人电脑的速度。本周的报告显示，英特尔处理器（据称不是AMD处理器）存在安全缺陷，导致重新设计Linux和Windows内核，以防止硬件缺陷。”“最近有报道称，这些漏洞攻击是由“bug”或“缺陷”引起的，是英特尔产品独有的，这是不正确的，”英特尔的一份声明说根据到目前为止的分析，许多类型的计算设备——具有许多不同供应商的处理器和操作系统——都容易受到这些攻击。”

尽管AMD工程师Tom Lendacky此前表示“AMD处理器不受内核页表隔离功能所保护的攻击类型的影响”，但英特尔表示，它正与AMD和ARM在一份措辞强硬的声明中合作。英特尔表示，计划下周与其他供应商一起披露这一问题，但它今天发表声明，因为它愤怒地称之为“不准确的媒体报道”

一些报告指出，软件和固件修复会导致PC机性能下降，英特尔并不否认这一点。”任何性能影响都取决于工作负载，对于普通计算机用户来说，影响不应太大，并且会随着时间的推移而减轻，”英特尔发言人表示。不过，英特尔并未解决对服务器机器的明显影响。

英特尔建议最终用户“与您的操作系统供应商或系统**商联系，并在任何可用更新可用后立即应用它们。”以下是英特尔的完整声明：

Intel and other technology companies have been made aware of new security research describing software ****ysis methods that, when used for malicious purposes, have the potential to improperly gather sensitive data from computing devices that are operating as designed. Intel believes these exploits do not have the potential to corrupt, modify or delete data.

Recent reports that these exploits are caused by a “bug” or a “flaw” and are unique to Intel products are incorrect. Based on the ****ysis to date, many types of computing devices — with many different vendors’ processors and operating systems — are susceptible to these exploits.

Intel is committed to product and customer security and is working closely with many other technology companies, including AMD, ARM Holdings and several operating system vendors, to develop an industry-wide approach to resolve this issue promptly and c***tructively. Intel has begun providing software and firmware updates to mitigate these exploits. Contrary to some reports, any performance impacts are workload-dependent, and, for the average computer user, should not be significant and will be mitigated over time.

Intel is committed to the industry best practice of resp***ible disclosure of potential security issues, which is why Intel and other vendors had planned to disclose this issue next week when more software and firmware updates will be available. However, Intel is making this statement today because of the current inaccurate media reports.

Check with your operating system vendor or system manufacturer and apply any available updates as soon as they are available. Following good security practices that protect against malware in general will also help protect against possible exploitation until updates can be applied.

Intel believes its products are the most secure in the world and that, with the support of its partners, the current soluti*** to this issue provide the best possible security for its customers.