My guess is that some researcher found something and decided to maximize profits, scraping the bottom of the barrel of quasi-vulnerabilities, creatively exagger

My guess is that some researcher found something and decided to maximize profits, scraping the bottom of the barrel of quasi-vulnerabilities, creatively exaggerating, and bringing in the lawyers, the financiers and the PR weasels needed to throw a scary web site and a misleading "white paper" at AMD. We'll see what CTS works on next.