Nvidia is the latest company to start issuing updates for its chips in wake of the vulnerabilities found in certain CPUs. The company announced some releases for its GPUs, as well as a schedule for when other updates, such as those for its SoCs would be coming.
The company revealed updates coming for its Android-based Shield Tablet and Shield TV. Shield Experience 5.4 for Tablet and Shield Experience 6.1 for TV will both be out before the end of January.
Nvidia also announced updated for it high-end Tegra Jetson SoCs. For those that don"t know, the TX1 is "the world"s first supercomputer on a module," while the TX2 "is the fastest, most power-efficient AI computing device." The TK1 is mainly used for embedded systems applications on supercomputers around the world.
Here is the list of security updates that will be coming for the various Tegra Jetson chips next month:
| Product Series | OS | Updated Version |
|---|---|---|
| Jetson TX1 | Linux for Tegra | BSP 28.2 Expected the week of February 5, 2018 |
| BSP 24.2.3 Expected before the end of February 2018 | ||
| Jetson TX2 | Linux for Tegra | BSP 28.2 Expected the week of February 5, 2018 |
| Jetson TK1 | Linux for Tegra | BSP 21.7 Expected before the end of February 2018 |
Nvidia had previously announced these for their PC GPUs:
Windows
| Product | Product Series | OS | Driver Branch | Updated Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GeForce | All | Windows | R390 | 390.65 |
| Quadro, NVS | All | Windows | R390 | 390.65 |
| R384 | 386.07 | |||
| Tesla | All | Windows | R390 | Expected week of January 22, 2018 |
| R384 | Expected week of January 8, 2018 |
Linux
| Product | Product Series | OS | Driver Branch | Updated Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GeForce | All | Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris | R390 | 390.12 |
| R384 | 384.111 | |||
| Quadro, NVS | All | Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris | R390 | 390.12 |
| R384 | 384.111 | |||
| Tesla | All | Linux | R390 | Expected week of January 22, 2018 |
| R384 | Expected week of January 8, 2018 |
Nvidia hopes to have all updates related to Spectre and Meltdown out by the end of February,
Thanks go out to Mando for the tip!