There is another far, far more terrifying example underway right now – so let's look at how it works. Microcode is one of the most esoteric and profound aspects of the stack. It can take many ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The researchers also found AMD was using a published example key from NIST documentation all this time, which helped them forge signatures and install any updates to the microcode they saw fit.

Microcode updates also come via the operating system under Linux and Windows, but these are sometimes months behind. Linux, for example, does not yet provide any microcode updates for Arrow Lake ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...