This latest decade-long critical security hole in Intel CPUs is going to cost the company significant market share. SemiAccurate thinks it is not only consequential but will shift the balance of power away from Intel CPUs for at least the next several years.

Today’s latest crop of gaping security flaws have three sets of holes across Intel, AMD, and ARM processors along with a slew of official statements and detailed analyses. On top of that the statements from vendors range from detailed and direct to intentionally misleading and slimy. Lets take a look at what the problems are, who they effect and what the outcome will be. Those outcomes range from trivial patching to destroying the market share of Intel servers, and no we are not joking.