Intel is rising after saying it's fixed the 'Spectre' CPU flaw (INTC, AMD)

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January 5, 2018 3:57 PM

Shares of Intel are rising on Friday after the company said it will release a fix for the "Spectre" flaw in its CPUs.

Shares of Intel are rising on Friday after the company said it will release a fix for the "Spectre" flaw in its CPUs.
The flaw was originally thought to be unfixable.

Intel was rocked this week after Google engineers discovered two major security flaws in the way the company's chips operate. One of the flaws were said to be unfixable by a simple software update.

However, Intel's stock is up 0.63% to $44.71 on Friday after the company said it has found a fix to the previously unfixable problem.

Google engineers announced on Wednesday that there were two main issues with Intel's chips. One was christened "Meltdown," and the other, "Spectre." The Meltdown flaw is less serious and can be patched by software that is already being released by many of the major computer operating systems.

The Spectre flaw was more serious and it affects chips from AMD, ARM, and Intel. The flaw was thought to be much harder to fix, if fixable at all. Google called the flaw Spectre because it thought "

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