OpenBSD is expanding its support by finally being able to apply AMD CPU microcode updates. It was reported that this comes with the latest code, which supports the update with new abilities. OpenBSD ...

Intel has apparently finally gotten to the bottom of its long-running CPU instability issues and will deliver a fix in August, company officials said on Monday. The company said “elevated operating ...

Intel has spent most of 2024 investigating and trying to fix a problems that was causing crashes and instability for owners of its high-end 13th- and 14th-generation Core desktop processors. In April, ...

Motherboard makers are starting to dish out BIOS updates based on new microcode from Intel to address stability issues affecting a wide range of 14th Gen and 13th Gen Core processor models. ASUS and ...

Intel has released microcode updates for several generations of mobile, desktop, and server CPUs to fix a vulnerability that can be exploited to trigger at the very least a denial-of-service condition ...

Update: This story has been updated at 12:04 PM to include Intel’s explanation of the new microcode. If your PC includes an Intel processor, it will likely receive a mysterious new update originally ...

Intel has finally broken its silence on the instability issues plaguing 13th-gen and 14th-gen CPUs over the last few months, but it seems we’ve only gotten a half answer to the problem. Gamer’s Nexus ...

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 ...

If you needed any further confirmation that AMD's "Granite Ridge" desktop processors sporting the Zen 5 architecture were on their way before long, the latest piece of evidence is an update for the ...

After nearly three months of back-and-forth with different updates, Intel is pushing out new production-ready microcode for several of its chips, including its Ivy Bridge Broadwell designs, which ...

Intel is quite known for playing around and pointing fingers. Intel will never admit it. They will always play around and dodge any kind of confrontation about it, and OEM's will never try to address ...

Bottom line: Chipmakers typically use microcode updates to fix bugs and improve CPU reliability. However, this low-level layer between hardware and machine code can also serve as a stealthy attack ...