Unrelated to the exploit, am pretty sure he's referring to the questionable anti-competitive practices Intel has engaged in the past decade.

Notably, the exclusivity-kickback agreements they arranged with several PC manufacturers. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/business/intel-eu-antitru...

As well as making their compiler choose the slowest execution path possible once it identifies it's running on an AMD/non-Intel CPU. http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=49#49