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 ...
All 6th, 7th, and 8th generation Core processors now have microcode available. It will be interesting to see if this allows for some recovery of CPU performance that is lost when completely inhibiting ...
A couple of weeks ago I reported the surprising news that Intel's elderly and bug-infested 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs are still selling in numbers. Now it turns out Intel is also still working ...