AMD and Intel have both already released OS-level microcode software updates to address both issues. Both companies have also said that they're not aware of any active in-the-wild exploits of ...

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 ...

The fix won't be available till August, but for now you can update your motherboard's BIOS to apply a stop-gap measure via another microcode update to force certain features to stay within Intel ...

Up to this point, Intel’s guidance has been a list of dense BIOS settings that could reduce performance by upwards of 9% on CPUs like the Core i9-13900K and Core i9-14900K. The microcode update ...

The aptly-named [chip-red-pill] team is offering you a chance to go down the Intel rabbit hole. If you learned how to build CPUs back in the 1970s, you would learn that your instruction decoder wou… ...

Microcode is the firmware that controls that emulation step. For the security guarantees of modern computing, it’s rather important that CPUs only run signed microcode from the CPUs vendor.

Unfortunately, a microcode bug—originally discovered in July but still floating around in large numbers in the wild—wrecked my good time. I eventually got my Ryzen 3700X system working, and it ...

AMD will be releasing a new AGESA microcode update this month, this is now being worked on by the motherboard manufacturers. The new microcode (which is located in your BIOS) will further enhance ...

Microsoft will offer the Intel microcode updates through its Microsoft Update Catalog. First in line are updates for Skylake processors from devices running Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.

Two things are overlooked: 1) Microcode is hardware-specfic, so creating a virus that could affect a broad range of PCs at a low level is problematic, and 2) What seems easy to an expert can be ...