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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Intel 0x114 Microcode Update Spotted And It Could Fix Arrow Lake Gaming Performance by Zak Killian — Saturday, December 07, 2024, 01:15 PM EDT Comments ...

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 ...

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… ...