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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

AMD on Monday issued two patches for severe microcode security flaws, defects that AMD said “could lead to the loss of Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) protection.”The bugs were ...

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

Intel and its partners have begun rolling out the microcode update that will fix stability and degradation issues with 13th and 14th Gen Intel Core desktop CPUs. The update arrived slightly ahead ...

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 ...