In addition, AMD and Intel have used microcode to solve big issues. The biggest example of this was Intel with its Core i9-13900K and Core i9-14900K, which experienced dire instability issues due ...

For example, opcode D6, commonly known as SALC for “Set AL to Carry”, seems to exist only as a trap for anyone making a carbon copy of Intel’s microcode. When other companies like NEC made ...

If successful, this could be a stepping-stone to exploiting CPU vulnerabilities like EntrySign, allowing them to execute malicious microcode on your processor. An example of this is when hackers ...

The first independent testing of the mitigation microcode patches show that it ... including some examples. According to him, billions of Intel processors are affected, which are used in private ...

Intel has finally provided an update on instability issues on 13th-gen and 14th-gen CPUs. An update posted by Thomas Hannaford, Intel’s communications manager, pins ...

A new microcode update fixes edge cases that can trigger the Vmin Shift glitch that the company addressed last year. Those whose CPUs are still crashing should take advantage of Intel's extended ...

Intel and its partners have begun rolling out the microcode update that will fix stability and degradation issues with 13th and 14th Gen Intel Core desktop CPUs. The update arrived slightly ahead ...

Microcode 0x12B “addresses elevated voltage requests by the processor during idle and/or light activity periods.” Microcode 0x12B “addresses elevated voltage requests by the processor during ...

When AMD finally issued patches for its critical microcode security hole on Monday, it said that the glitch 'could lead to the loss of Secure Encrypted Virtualization protection.' AMD on Monday ...

Because such microcode updates intervene deeply in CPU ... running in parallel on the same server, for example for confidential computing. Google itself uses AMD SEV (or SEV-SNP), for example ...

Several updates have been announced in the past few months, including one in July that promised a remedy for the issue via a microcode update. However, that was still somewhat of a band-aid on the ...