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 ...

AMD's upcoming openSIL firmware iis being ported early to an MSI B850 motherboard, making it the first AM5 motherboard to have a firmware option that does not feature AMD AGESA microcode.

When generating the initramfs on a Hygon (x86_64) CPU, Dracut outputs a warning: Disabling early microcode, because kernel does not support it. CONFIG_MICROCODE!=y. This is erroneous because the ...

Ah, the tween years for chip announcements: Those periods when companies roll out tweaked versions of the big architectural changes we saw over the previous year (or earlier). In AMD's case, some of ...

Anticipation is building as Gigabyte has officially announced support for the highly awaited Intel Arrow Lake “Core Ultra 200S Plus” Refresh CPUs through its updated BIOS for Z890 motherboards. This ...

"Ransomware at the CPU level, microcode alteration, and if you are in the CPU or the firmware, you will bypass every freaking traditional technology we have out there." When you purchase through links ...

Intel has issued new firmware to further fix stability issues on 13th and 14th Gen desktop processors. The new update is said to have almost no performance impact. Back in August 2024, Intel confirmed ...

TL;DR: AMD has identified a security flaw, "EntrySign," affecting Zen 1 to Zen 5 CPUs, allowing attackers kernel-level access by bypassing microcode signature verification. A fix has been issued via ...

In a nutshell: Google researchers recently disclosed a stealthy security flaw dubbed "EntrySign" that allowed malicious code execution through unsigned microcode patches on AMD processors from Zen 1 ...

A current processor will no longer be able to compete with the latest models in five years’ time. But with the right choice, you can ensure that your CPU will continue to offer solid performance in ...