This power problem is what was causing the computers to crash. Intel is working hard to fix this. They have created a software update called a microcode patch. This patch will tell the processors to ...
A team of Google researchers working with AMD recently discovered a major CPU exploit on Zen-based processors. The exploit ...
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 ...
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 ...
Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Now, Intel plans to address the processors’ troublesome ‘elevated operating voltage’ with a microcode patch. Now, ...
When homebrewing a CPU, one has to deal with microcode. Microcode is the low-level nuts and bolts of how, precisely, a CPU executes instructions (like opcodes) and performs functions such as updating ...
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 ...
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 — ...
Chipmaker Intel Corp. says it has finally identified the cause of the widespread instability issues that have plagued its 13th and 14th Gen Core processors. In an update posted today, the company said ...
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 ...
Modern processors are incredibly complex, and even a tiny flaw during manufacturing can have serious and widespread repercussions. This seems to be the case with 13th and 14th Gen Intel Core desktop ...