Continuing his reverse-engineering of the Intel 8087, [Ken Shirriff] covers the conditional tests that are implemented in the ...

It's been months since the first reports of Intel's Core i9 processors being unstable in Unreal Engine games, but a small step toward a solution has been made, with the discovery in the code that ...

OpenBSD is expanding its support by finally being able to apply AMD CPU microcode updates. It was reported that this comes with the latest code, which supports the update with new abilities. OpenBSD ...

My understanding was that a CPU microcode update is stored in non-volatile memory on the motherboard and is loaded by the BIOS or UEFI into volatile memory on the CPU during boot. And because the ...

In case you missed it, Intel earlier this week issued a statement saying it finally discovered the root cause of widely reported instability on its 14th Gen and 13the Gen Core processors. Intel also ...

Motherboard makers are starting to dish out BIOS updates based on new microcode from Intel to address stability issues affecting a wide range of 14th Gen and 13th Gen Core processor models. ASUS and ...

Intel has announced the deployment of microcode update 0x12B aimed at resolving the Vmin offset instability observed in its 13th and 14th series desktop processors, as they have now identified the ...

This microcode data file contains the latest microcode definitions for all Intel processors. Intel releases these updates periodically. These microcode data files correct processor behavior as ...

AMD officially admitted today that its processors are not vulnerable to the Meltdown bug, but are affected by both variants of the Spectre flaw. In addition, because of repeated questions regarding ...

Intel released an update to the Meltdown and Spectre mitigation guide, revealing that it stopped working on mitigations for some processor series. The Meltdown and Spectre mitigation guide is a PDF ...