‘It Can’t Be True.’ Inside the Semiconductor Industry’s Meltdown - Bloomberg: "like Prescher more than a year later, the Graz team was skeptical this was a real flaw. Gruss recalls telling Fogh that the chipmakers would have uncovered such a glaring security hole during testing and would never have shipped chips with a vulnerability like that.
"Despite Fogh’s encouragement, the Graz researchers still didn’t think attacks would ever work in practice. "That would be such a major f*ck-up by Intel that it can’t be possible," Schwarz recalled saying. So the team didn’t dedicate much time to it."
'via Blog this'