Gigabyte designs and manufactures motherboards for both AMD and Intel platforms. It also produces graphics cards and notebooks in partnership with AMD and Nvidia, including Nvidia's Turing chipsets and AMD's Vega and Polaris chipsets. PrivacySharks suggested that if the leak turns out to include Gigabyte's master keys – i.e., keys that identify hardware manufacturers as the original developer – threat actors could use them to force hardware to download fake drivers, BIOS updates or more, as happened with SolarWinds.