When AMD finally issued patches for its critical microcode security hole on Monday, it said that the glitch 'could lead to the loss of Secure Encrypted Virtualization protection.' AMD on Monday issued ...
As soon as the broader discussion about the Raptor Lake stability issues began, many people were already speculating that the potential "fix" would have a deleterious effect on performance. In essence ...
A team of Google researchers working with AMD recently discovered a major CPU exploit on Zen-based processors. The exploit ...
An interesting detail about the Intel 8087 floating point processor (FPU) is that it’s a co-processor that shares a bus with the 8086 or 8088 CPU and system memory, which means that somehow ...
Security reseachers estimate the ‘Sinkclose’ vulnerability affects ‘hundreds of millions of laptops, desktops, and servers,’ allowing attackers to execute malicious code on the most privileged ...
Something to look forward to: Intel's plan to address voltage-related crashes on desktop processors with a patch has some worried that performance and overclocking will take a hit. Past updates to ...
Microcode 0x12B “addresses elevated voltage requests by the processor during idle and/or light activity periods.” Microcode 0x12B “addresses elevated voltage requests by the processor during idle ...
In Intel’s statement released on Friday, it says that its own recent tests of the microcode patches being rolled out to customers — for the voltage issue impacting 13th- and 14th-gen Core processors — ...
AMD has released mitigation and firmware updates to address a high-severity vulnerability that can be exploited to load malicious CPU microcode on unpatched devices. The security flaw (CVE-2024-56161) ...
Historically speaking, even when it wasn't the absolute fastest option, Intel has always been 'competitive' with longtime rival AMD in terms of CPU gaming performance. That is actually still the case ...
Google's security team has reported security vulnerabilities in some of AMD's Zen architecture CPUs, including its EPYC brand of products for servers and embedded systems. Many recent CPUs use ...