>> glor: major security flaws have been found in the chips wor power most of the world's tpmputers and smartphones. here is john blackstone. >> inside the super-fast i486 f.x. p.c. es reporter: since the earliest days of personal computing, the search for faster processing has been a prime focus. >> performance has always been the goal. >> reporter: but now, security experts say that search for speed has resulted in two flaws, with the ominous names meltdown and spectre, discovered in the processing chips that are at the heart of almost every computer since 1995. >> there are billions of these chips out in the world, and they power everything from the biggest computers to maybe your cell phone. >> reporter: the flaw was coscovered in the computer's so- called kernel memory, and was meant to be inaccessible to users.