https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/25/house_reps_intel_meltdown_spectre/

Four Republican members of the US House of Representatives sent letters on Wednesday to the leaders of Amazon, AMD, Apple, ARM, Google, Intel and Microsoft seeking answers about how the embargo on the Meltdown and Spectre bugs was handled.

The secrecy agreement, put in place by these same companies, demanded silence from June 2017, when researchers recognized the seriousness of the processor design flaws, through the planned date of coordinated disclosure on Tuesday, January 9, 2018.