Advanced Micro Devices Inc. admitted late Thursday that its exposure to the Spectre chip vulnerability is wider than first thought. AMD shares fell 3.1% to $11.76 after hours. AMD said in a statement it defined additional steps “through a combination of processor microcode updates and OS patches that we will make available” to Ryzen and EPYC customers starting this week. Last week, AMD said there was a near zero risk of its chips being susceptible to the so-called Spectre chip exploit.
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