Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Jensen Huang disputed a report that software updates disclosed Wednesday morning showed that the company’s graphics-processing units are susceptible to the Spectre vulnerability that has roiled other chip companies. In a presentation to media members at CES in Las Vegas, Huang said that those interpretations of its Wednesday morning blog post update were “incorrectly reported.” “Our GPUs are immune, they are not affected by these security issues,” Huang said, explaining that Nvidia had to release software updates to fix the CPU vulnerability, just like other software makers including Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc. . Nvidia stock started off Wednesday’s session with a decline, but steadily climbed through the morning session and was showing a slight gain for the session by mid-day. Nvidia shares have gained more than 109% in the past year, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average has increased 27.7%.
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