I’m retired now, but for 30 years I debugged problems in bleeding-edge IBM processors, horizontal microcode, firmware, ...

An interesting detail about the Intel 8087 floating point processor (FPU) is that it’s a co-processor that shares a bus with the 8086 or 8088 CPU and system memory, which means that somehow ...

Ah, the tween years for chip announcements: Those periods when companies roll out tweaked versions of the big architectural changes we saw over the previous year (or earlier). In AMD's case, some of ...

Anticipation is building as Gigabyte has officially announced support for the highly awaited Intel Arrow Lake “Core Ultra 200S Plus” Refresh CPUs through its updated BIOS for Z890 motherboards. This ...

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and ...

Four newly revealed vulnerabilities in AMD processors, including EPYC and Ryzen chips, expose enterprise systems to side-channel attacks. CrowdStrike warns of critical risks despite AMD’s lower ...

Graphics Cards Digging a little deeper into Intel's Xe3 architecture shows exactly why Panther Lake's iGPU is good: It's basically an Arc A770 graphics card jammed into a mobile chip Processors Best ...

SAN FRANCISCO/TAIPEI, May 19 (Reuters) - Qualcomm on Monday said it will make custom data center central processing units, or CPUs, that use technology from Nvidia to connect to Nvidia's artificial ...

"Ransomware at the CPU level, microcode alteration, and if you are in the CPU or the firmware, you will bypass every freaking traditional technology we have out there." When you purchase through links ...

Intel has issued new firmware to further fix stability issues on 13th and 14th Gen desktop processors. The new update is said to have almost no performance impact. Back in August 2024, Intel confirmed ...