Your next work laptop may be more secure if it has an Intel processor than its big rival AMD, according to a new report of the above claims.
Intel's XNUMX Product Security Report notes (perhaps unsurprisingly) that its hardware has suffered from fewer recently discovered bugs compared to AMD's offerings.
Even the flaws found in its GPU unit stem primarily from AMD's graphics components, the chipmaker said, though AMD has yet to comment on any of these findings.
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The report reveals that a total of sixteen new vulnerabilities were found in devices with Intel processors last year, while AMD chips had thirty-one. Nearly half of the failures found in its GPU units come from AMD components, Intel said.
Of these sixteen vulnerabilities, Intel found ten on its own, while the other 6 were discovered through its bug bounty program. As far as the graphics are concerned, there were a total of fifty-one failures: fifteen discovered internally and thirty-six through bounties.
In fact, Intel's internal team was quite busy. It asserts that of the XNUMX published CVEs, XNUMX% were discovered internally by Intel employees, with XNUMX% of the vulnerabilities patched being the "direct result" of Intel's investment in ensuring product security, compared to with ninety-two percent a year ago.
Forty-three percent of the supporting vulnerabilities were discovered through the bug bounty program, while the remaining seven percent came from open source projects or companies that are not eligible for the bounty program.
"The security of our products is one of our top priorities," Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger wrote in his introduction to the report. "We strive to design, manufacture and sell the most secure technology products on the planet, as well as continually renewing and improving the security capabilities of our products."
As Tom's Hardware reports, Intel's handling of GPU vulnerabilities is particularly interesting. CVE INTEL-SA-XNUMX, found on Intel Core processors with Radeon RX Vega M graphics, has twenty-three defects for AMD components.
Furthermore, of all the CVEs released in XNUMX, GPUs had the most vulnerabilities, followed by Ethernet and Software, where thirty-four flaws were found.
“At Intel, security comes first in both how we work and what we do,” the company said. "Our culture and practices guide everything we build, with the goal of providing the best performance and perfect protections."
Via: Tom's Hardware