NVIDIA updates its GPU software in response to Spectre security threat; claims risks are not the same as seen on Intel and others

Nvidia shares, down more than 1 percent in early trade, bounced back to gain 0.8 percent on the day after Huang’s comments. Nvidia Corp is updating the software for its graphics processors in response to the Spectre security threat, but its chief executive said on Wednesday its chips were not subject to the same risks as those from Intel and other companies. “Our GPUs are immune,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said during an event at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, referring to graphics processing units, the chip maker’s key product. Security researchers revealed vulnerabilities, dubbed Meltdown and Spectre, that could let hackers steal passwords or encryption keys from central processing units made by Intel and rivals. Rosenblatt Securities analyst Hans Mosesmann said Nvidia’s driver updates could become a problem for data centres and lead corporate customers to hold off on buying servers which have GPUs.