Along with that I'd imagine that they're really invested in it with Azure and such too. If all their customers were vulnerable to this they could end up in a b

Along with that I'd imagine that they're really invested in it with Azure and such too. If all their customers were vulnerable to this they could end up in a bad position. They could obviously work on their own patches but they'd have to get them upstream into distros without telling them what's going on because of the nda/silence desired by Intel. That would leave them in a terrible position.