Inside every modern CPU since the Intel Pentium fdiv bug, assembly instructions aren’t a one-to-one mapping to what the CPU actually does. Inside the CPU, there is a decoder that turns assembly into ...

Back in the last century, Intel saw itself faced with a need to have ‘second source’ suppliers of its 8088 and 8086 processors, which saw NEC being roped in to be one of those alternative suppliers to ...

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Intel will be releasing a microcode update to prevent further damage to crashing 13th- and 14th-generation desktop processors sometime this month if it can stick to its previously announced schedule.

Microsoft, with a blog post today, announced that it will begin providing Intel's new Spectre and Meltdown mitigations through the Microsoft Update Catalog, and will continue to push further updates.

Microsoft has rolled out five Intel microcode updates for Windows 10 in an effort to address several vulnerabilities in Intel processors. The updates are meant to help combat various Spectre variants.

Windows users running the latest version of Windows 10 on recent Intel processors will soon be receiving Intel’s microcode updates to address the Spectre variant 2 attack. Intel has since fixed the ...

After issuing an official statement on the ongoing issues surrounding its 13th and 14th Gen CPUs, confirming that a 'microcode' update will "fix" the problem of potential hardware failure, instability ...

A dangerous potato: After researchers revealed the initial details of the Sinkclose security issue, AMD announced that a firmware update would be coming for some of its desktop, mobile, and server ...

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 ...