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RE: Attempted Product Assassination? - AMD Ryzen Security Flaws - Though the shady part is in how they were disclosed to AMD.
2 possibilities:
- scheme to drop AMD stocks for whatever reason
- scheme of Intel to lower the value of AMD for a buyout. Despite the fact that intel makes more money than AMD by a longshot, AMD owns the patent to the x86 processor architecture so Intel had to pay royalties to use it. If intel could buy AMD wholesale or just the patent they can eliminate the headache.
It actually seems to be more likely Viceroy (investment firm) has more interest in this. The video I embedded is thorough and covers a lot of details. Intel may not be behind this at all, but it is worth considering. Especially, since some of the exposed vulnerabilities would pretty much apply to any computer.
If you already have root access then it is rather moot from that point.