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 ...

Yesterday, AMD and Google publicly disclosed September findings of a key microcode vulnerability in AMD Zen 1 to Zen 4 CPUs, specifically server/enterprise platform EPYC CPUs. This vulnerability ...

Microcode is also a fiendish exercise in mediating between intricate, interrelated subsystems, and the whole must be very high performance, very reliable, and very secure.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.' ...

Intel is in trouble. We’ve known there was a problem for months, but the true scope of the issue is coming into focus. Intel has finally said a microcode update that will solve the instability ...

New BIOS updates with the '0x129 microcode' is now available for these ASUS, MSI, and ASRock motherboards, reportedly fixes Intel CPU issues.

Fix coming for Intel's long-running stability problems with 13th and 14th Gen CPUs. Microcode will fix voltage problems once and for all without affecting performance, ...