Opinion All malicious attacks on digital systems have one common aim: taking control. Mostly, that means getting a CPU somewhere to turn traitor, running code that silently steals or scrambles your ...

Intel heeft nieuwe en naar eigen zeggen stabiele microcode uitgebracht die de tweede variant van de Spectre-kwetsbaarheid moet tegengaan. Dat deed de chipmaker voor Kaby Lake en Coffee Lake-cpu's, ...

Microsoft has released a new batch of Intel microcode updates for Windows 10 2004, 1909, 1903, and older versions to fix hardware bugs in Intel CPUs. When Intel finds bugs in their CPUs, they release ...

When homebrewing a CPU, one has to deal with microcode. Microcode is the low-level nuts and bolts of how, precisely, a CPU executes instructions (like opcodes) and performs functions such as updating ...

Pupil using the portable MicroCode. Credit: Lancaster University. A new coding tool called MicroCode is making it easier for children to program the popular BBC micro:bit micro-computer wherever they ...

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 announced this week that it made available some Intel Skylake microcode updates that address Spectre variant 2 types of attacks for the Windows 10 Fall creators update (version 1709). Most ...