What I can't figure out is why all the panic from these vendors who knew it has been around since July. I mean really...did intel only write and test the BIOS update the week before the official notification.
They had realistically Oct-Dec to actually do testing and refine the BIOS updates in concert with all the other vendors patches...which considering vendors had 3 months to create the patches and 3 months of testing should have meant that the early notification should have been no big deal....