Intel reported first-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street expectations Revenue rose more than 7%, a sign that the chipmaker is finally starting to see some growth. The stock has been a Wall Street ...

In today’s 2 Minute Tech Briefing, hackers exploit an Adobe Reader flaw to profile victims, DARPA develops a new AI communication language through MATHBAC, and Intel joins the massive Terafab chip ...

Sixteen miles north of Albuquerque, in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, an Intel chip plant sits on more than 200 acres of land. The site was established in the 1980s, part of it built on top of a sod farm. In ...

Continuing his reverse-engineering of the Intel 8087, [Ken Shirriff] covers the conditional tests that are implemented in the microcode of this floating point processing unit (FPU). This microcode ...

I see an issue which exists for some rare users where 0x0 is instead of actual microcode. I can assume it's because it's located in 4 upper bytes, not in 4 lower bytes as ususal.

A team of computer scientists from ETH Zurich has uncovered a new security vulnerability that affects all Intel processors. This issue is linked to a technology called speculative execution, which ...

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 ...

A hot potato: Users with 13th- and 14th-generation Intel desktop processors should begin checking for BIOS updates from their motherboard providers. A new microcode update fixes edge cases that can ...

Intel has confirmed that it's about to issue another microcode update for its 13th-gen and 14th-gen Raptor Lake CPUs, meaning you'll need to update your motherboard BIOS again. As with the raft of ...

AMD has released mitigation and firmware updates to address a high-severity vulnerability that can be exploited to load malicious CPU microcode on unpatched devices. The security flaw (CVE-2024-56161) ...