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 researcher from Rapid7 created a working Proof of Concept for a CPU ransomware Such a ransomware would persist on a device even after the hard drive had been replaced The PoC will (most likely) ...

The chiplet-based approach allows Intel to mix-and-match these tiles to offer three distinct iterations of Panther Lake: the ...