Turns out there is a free lunch after all, and it's called a firmware update ...

Processors can guess ahead to boost performance, but it has security downsides ...

Intel Nova Lake-S leaks a 5,210 single-thread PassMark score, beating current flagships, but its multi-thread result trails ...

Giant OEMs, Taiwanese ODMs, procurement, quality assurance, and firmware. The true nature of the 'horizontal division of ...

AMD TLBI Erratum #1718 was worked around in CPU microcode for addressing a defect in certain Zen CPUs where the Translation Lookaside Buffer Invalidate Instruction use could lead to to stale ...

Run a newer Intel CPU on an old OEM PC: add the microcode its final BIOS lacks with a Boot Guard-safe same-size swap. Docs, diagrams, offline builder and pre-flash verifier. - ...

Some OEM business PCs can electrically run a CPU from the next Intel generation, but their final BIOS never shipped that CPU's microcode, and without it the CPU is reported not to start. This repo ...

An Intel Core i9-14900KF and a GeForce RTX 5070 headline the ABS Cyclone Aqua gaming PC, and Newegg has this configuration for $1,899.99. That is $600 ...

Introduction: The job of bringing a computer to the worldThe computers we use every day.They incorporate numerous pieces of ...

Intel is preparing to release a critical microcode update aimed at resolving an issue that has affected its 13th Gen processors since their launch. The update, expected by mid-August, comes after ...

An AMD engineering sample that may point to a future handheld processor has appeared in OpenBenchmarking results. The listing ...