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.

Bottom line: Chipmakers typically use microcode updates to fix bugs and improve CPU reliability. However, this low-level layer between hardware and machine code can also serve as a stealthy attack ...

Seven months since the supposed conclusion of Intel’s 13th/14th Gen “Raptor Lake” CPU issues relating to the Vmin Shift bug that causes these chips to degrade, it looks like Team Blue has published ...

AMD and Google's Security Team have disclosed a major microcode vulnerability affecting all AMD EPYC processors built on the Zen 1 through Zen 4 architectures. That means EPYC 7001 (Naples), 7002 ...

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 ...

AMD has confirmed an unpatched “processor vulnerability” that may require CISOs to isolate their systems or even air gap them until there’s a fix. AMD has had to confirm the existence of a major ...

Chipzilla’s latest "0x114" microcode update appears unable to resolve persistent performance issues plaguing its Arrow Lake-S processors. Recent benchmarks have revealed further degradation making ...

ASUS ROG has released its latest BIOS updates for Intel Z890 motherboards, featuring Intel’s 0x114 microcode designed for the new Core Ultra desktop processors. These updates aim to improve gaming ...

Intel’s newly launched Core Ultra 200S processors didn’t meet the performance expectations of the PC gaming community, despite improvements in power efficiency. Many users found that the Core Ultra ...