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AMD will Spectre-proof the Zen 2 architecture, and 4 other nuggets from its earnings call

After years of reporting loss after loss, AMD marked a second straight profitable quarter, standing upon the shoulders of its successful Ryzen CPUs and Vega chips. Company executives also said they plan to implement mitigations for the Spectre vulnerabilities in the upcoming Zen 2 architecture, and warned of memory shortages.

The Wall Street analysts on the call were focused on what impact this would all have on

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