AMD and Nvidia will benefit from Intel’s chip security vulnerability and related performance issues, according to one Wall Street firm. British tech website The Register reported Tuesday that some Intel processors have a “fundamental design flaw” and security vulnerability, which spurred the company to confirm the exploit later in the day. Shares of AMD and Nvidia rose 5.2 percent and 6.6 percent, respectively, Wednesday, while […]
Microsoft, Amazon, and Google said they are working on updates to cloud services and other products to prevent exploitation of chip-level security vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities, which were publicly disclosed by the Register on Tuesday, could allow a hacker to steal information stored in the memory of a wide range of computer chips running on personal devices, like computers, as well as servers in data centers,[…..]