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<p>LAS VEGAS &#8212; Intel has big plans to steer toward new business in self-driving cars, virtual reality and other cutting-edge technologies. But first it has to pull out of a skid caused by a serious security flaw in its processor chips, which undergird many of the world&#8217;s smartphones and personal computers.</p><p>Intel CEO Brian Krzanich opened his keynote talk Monday night at the annual CES gadget show in Las Vegas by addressing the hard-to-fix flaws disclosed by security researchers last week. At an event known for its technological optimism, it was an unusually sober and high-profile reminder of the information security and privacy dangers lurking beneath many of the tech industry&#8217;s gee-whiz wonders.</p><p>Some researchers have argued that the flaws reflect a fundamental hardware defect that can&#8217;t be fixed short of a recall. But Intel has pushed back against that idea, arguing that the problems can be &#8220;mitigated&#8221; by software or firmware upgrades. Companies from Microsoft to Apple have announced efforts to patch the vulnerabilities.</p><p>And Krzanich promised fixes in the coming week to 90 percent of the processors Intel has made in the past five years, consistent with an earlier statement from the company . He added that updates for the remainder of those recent processors should follow by the end of January. Krzanich did not address the company&#8217;s plans for older chips.</p><p>To date, he said, Intel has seen no sign that anyone has stolen data by exploiting the two vulnerabilities, known as Meltdown and Spectre. The problems were disclosed last week by Google&#8217;s Project Zero security team and other researchers. Krzanich commended the &#8220;remarkable&#8221; collaboration among tech companies to address what he called an &#8220;industry-wide&#8221; problem.</p><p>While Meltdown is believed to primarily affect processors built by Intel, Spectre also affects many of the company&#8217;s rivals. Flaws affecting the processor chips also endanger the PCs, internet browsers, cloud computing services and other technology that rely on them. Both bugs could be exploited through what&#8217;s known as a side-channel attack that could extract passwords and other sensitive data from the chip&#8217;s memory.</p><p>Krzanich himself has been in the spotlight over the security issue after it was revealed that he had sold about $39 million in his own Intel stocks and options in late November, before the vulnerability was publicly known. Intel says it was notified about the bugs in June.</p><p>The company didn&#8217;t respond to inquiries about the timing of Krzanich&#8217;s divestments, but a spokeswoman said it was unrelated to the security flaws.</p><p>During his presentation Monday, Krzanich also launched into a flashy and wide-ranging celebration of the way Intel and its partners are harnessing data for futuristic innovations, from 3D entertainment partnerships with Paramount Pictures to virtual-reality collaborations with the 2018 Winter Olympics and a new breakthrough in so-called quantum computing.</p><p>A self-driving Ford Fusion rolled onto the stage of the casino theater where Krzanich gave his talk. It&#8217;s the first of a 100-vehicle test fleet run by Mobileeye, the Israel-based software company that Intel bought for $15 billion last year. Mobileeye processes the information cars &#8220;see&#8221; from cameras and sensors.</p><p>A flying taxi &#8212; the German-built Volocopter &#8212; later lifted from the stage. Then came the drones, in a musical performance that Krzanich said would mark a Guinness record for the &#8220;world&#8217;s first 100-drone indoor lightshow without GPS.&#8221;</p><style>
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<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By MATT O&#8217;BRIEN</p><p>AP Technology Writer</p></bylineMeta></div>

Intel CEO: Fixes on the way for serious chip security flaws