Intel appears to have taken aim at AMD and Nvidia in their latest product security report, claiming the latter’s GPUs only had “high severity vulnerabilities” last year. The report, which is now in its sixth year, aims to provide a ‘transparent analysis of the product vulnerabilities Intel disclosed in 2024’. The findings revealed that 96% of the vulnerabilities addressed were discovered through Intel's ‘proactive product security assurance efforts’. Meanwhile, 100% of the Intel processor vulnerabilities addressed were ‘discovered through internal security research’, it is claimed.

However, Intel also claimed AMD reported 4.4x more firmware vulnerabilities in their hardware root-of-trust compared to them. Elsewhere, the report also claims that AMD reported 1.8x more firmware vulnerabilities in their confidential computing technologies than Intel. The report also claims that in the GPU category, NVIDIA had “only high-severity vulnerabilities (18) in 2024”. In comparison, the findings show that Intel had the fewest number of GPU vulnerabilities in 2024 at 10, while AMD had 13.

Intel slams Nvidia GPU-related vulnerabilities

Last year, 72% of NVIDIA GPU-related vulnerabilities had the potential to allow an attacker to execute code of their choice, the report claims.

While the results paint a somewhat positive picture for Intel, the chipmaker still has a long way to go if it’s to claw back the lead from AMD.

Recently, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates revealed that he hoped Intel could recover, but admitted the company has ‘lost its way’. “They missed the AI chip revolution, and with their fabrication capabilities, they don’t even use standards that people like Nvidia and Qualcomm find easy,” he said. “I thought Pat Gelsinger was very brave to say, ‘No, I am going to fix the design side, I am going to fix the fab side.’ I was hoping for his sake, for the country’s sake, that he would be successful. I hope Intel recovers, but it looks pretty tough for them at this stage.”

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