Since this concerns your employer, it would be nice to state your affiliation. Also, the initial press release was worded such that all CPUs had the same probl

Since this concerns your employer, it would be nice to state your affiliation. Also, the initial press release was worded such that all CPUs had the same problems. This is only true for Spectre, Meltdown is specific to Intel CPUs and some other CPUs (such as recent Apple CPUs), but it is definitely not a general bug. Then there were benchmarks one or two days ago that were seemingly intentionally misleading. E.g., they included typical number crunching benchmarks, while Meltdown mitigation only concerns system calls and Spectre mitigations are still very limited in software. Rather than communicating this clearly, it was a big cover-up screaming 'see, nothing happened'. The problem is that after the ME and now this debacle, very few technical people still trust Intel. There may be no alternatives for e.g. HPC, but if Intel doesn't clean up this mess, people might vote with their wallets as soon as they can.