An engineer at Mozilla thinks Raptor Lake CPUs struggled during Europe’s early July heatwave. He’s pointing the finger at the ...

If you’ve ever wondered why your desktop browser seems to crash more often during a heat wave, there’s now a clear ...

As with Inception, OS-level microcode fixes are already available, but AMD may likewise take a few months to release new firmware versions with the fixes incorporated. Related Stories.

Microcode updates have fortunately already been released for impacted CPUs, so using the appropriate update utilities (BIOS updates, etc.) should work fine— but as AMD notes, ...

Intel says that its microcode 0x129 patch must be installed via a BIOS update. While this update will limit voltage requests to a maximum of 1.55 volts, Intel says it does not significantly impact ...

So microcode is now loaded into the processor at startup as an unencrypted and signed binary blob. If you're smart enough to break that and reverse engineer the microcode, you're in business.

After installing Intel microcode updates, Windows 10 will require you to restart your computer for the patches to be applied. Before doing so, be sure to save any documents that may be open before ...

Here’s how, and why, the Spectre and Meltdown patches will hurt performance Now that microcode and patches are starting to ship, a clearer picture is emerging.

AMD has had to confirm the existence of a major cybersecurity problem in its chip microcode before it can post a fix.. Microcode often loads during startup and it can change chip capabilities ...

For example, Thor Larholm at PiVX points out that microcode utilities for CPUs are available from both Intel and AMD, complete with source code. This could be used to corrupt the CPU, causing a ...

If retargetable microcode is new to you, imagine the instruction set of a microprocessor. If you take a look at the die you’ll find what is in effect a ROM on board, a look-up table defining ...