Per dictionary.com, the legal definition of negligence is "the failure to exercise that degree of care that, in the circumstances, the law requires for the protection of other persons or those interests of other persons that may be injuriously affected by the want of such care. "
What Intel did was not recognize that a specific attack possibility existed. Nobody else recognized it either, for a decade. That's not negligence. That's failure to be omniscient.
Per dictionary.com, the legal definition of negligence is "the failure to exercise that degree of care that, in the circumstances, the law requires for the protection of other persons or those interests of other persons that may be injuriously affected by the want of such care. "
What Intel did was not recognize that a specific attack possibility existed. Nobody else recognized it either, for a decade. That's not negligence. That's failure to be omniscient.