These two days Intel is Meltdown, Specter two bumps and burned, they affect almost all Intel X86 two decades processor, spread to Windows, Linux, Mac OS and even Android system, the impact of large is rare.
What's even more tragic is that at this exposure vulnerability, the kernel-level Meltdown vulnerability is Intel-based, although Intel has pulled down both AMD and ARM, saying that they have also been affected, but AMD has repeatedly stated their The processor is not affected by the Meltdown vulnerability because of the different architectures on both sides.
Now rejection pot is not only AMD, and even NVIDIA are out 'up knife' Said that their GPU processor will not be affected by the loopholes.
This loophole was a big hit and was especially bad for Intel, undermining the security image of its own processor and facing possible litigation and compensation issues in the future. This was the test that happened in 2018.
It is because of this, yesterday Intel shares rushed Street, and rival AMD, NVIDIA shares soared.
AMD because of their different architecture, they survived, and NVIDIA naturally will not encounter this problem, because the accident is the X86 processor, has nothing to do with the GPU.
Taking into account the impact of the incident is too large, NVIDIA also announced in the official website that their core business is GPU computing, firmly believe that their products are immune to exposure to security vulnerabilities, that is to say will not be affected.
In addition, NVIDIA is upgrading GPU drivers to ease the problem.
However, NVIDIA is not completely irrelevant in this vulnerability event. The core GPU business is not affected, but they also have the ARM processor business. Since the vulnerabilities also affect the ARM processor, they have analyzed which SoCs are affected by the vulnerability, NVIDIA is advising users to follow their product safety page as appropriate steps are being taken to address this issue.
PS : Editor's Note, because the ARM from the Cortex-A8 to the latest A75 are affected, so NVIDIA's Tegra chip still need to patch.
