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Specter bothers executives of technology companies at the consumer electronics show

Time:2018-01-15

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In the world's largest electronics exhibition, two vulnerabilities of "Specter" and "Meltdown" have been highly valued. Hackers can use these two vulnerabilities to attack all personal computers and servers in the world.

On Monday, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich published a keynote speech after researchers found the leak in Alphabet company, praised the whole industry's Countermeasures for vulnerabilities, and emphasized that Intel will not be affected.

On the second morning, AMD and Microsoft Corp also confirmed the view of Krzanich. But due to the processor performance brought by the patch, Microsoft began to stop some patches based on AMD devices, resulting in the decline of AMD's share price. MarketWatch in the afternoon and AMD CEO Lisa (Lisa Su) met in the conference room of the hotel, the snowstorm swept across Las Vegas, which affected the most watched Google booth at the entire Electronics Exhibition.

Su said that the problem of vulnerability only affects some traditional processors, that is, the old AMD chip. It also indicates that the problem of Microsoft patching will be resolved soon.

"By the end of this week, all the problems will be history," AMD's chief technology officer, Mark Papermaster, said in an interview.

In the interview, Su and Papermaster insisted that the chip did not need to be redesigned to avoid unforeseen technical problems.

Other chip makers, such as Qualcomm Corp and Nvidia Corp, also used "complex" and "evolving" words to describe the Specter in blogs, news conferences and interviews. The consistent introduction of "ghost" seems to be: "we are studying the mechanism of it, and hope to supplement anything we need through cooperation with our highly skilled engineers / partners.