AMD launches Spectre Patch for its Own Processor
While Intel is at the center of the Spectre/Meltdown fiasco, AMD's chips are also affected by the CPU flaws. Though AMD insisted Meltdown Flaw pose little threat to their own products and are likely to be protected from Spectre due to the architecture. That's largely because, as the chipmaker explained an initial statement, there is a " near zero risk " to its processors. Still, AMD launches Spectre patch updates for its Ryzen and EPYC chips this week. "We have defined additional steps through a combination of processor microcode updates and OS patches that we will make available to AMD customers and partners to further mitigate the threat,” AMD's Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster said in a blog post on the official site in reference to Spectre. At present, Linux vendors have also rolled out fixes. For Variant 1 , Mark shares some detail about how AMD is handling Spectre in the blog ： We believ...