The aptly-named [chip-red-pill] team is offering you a chance to go down the Intel rabbit hole. If you learned how to build CPUs back in the 1970s, you would learn that your instruction decoder wou… ...

How to Write a Code of Ethics for Business: Putting Someone in Charge Even if senior management and employees embrace a code of ethics, someone needs to be put in charge of applying and updating it.

It’s configurable enough to be adapted for other homebrew CPU projects, though one would of course have to re-write the microcode portion.

Two things are overlooked: 1) Microcode is hardware-specfic, so creating a virus that could affect a broad range of PCs at a low level is problematic, and 2) What seems easy to an expert can be ...

My understanding was that a CPU microcode update is stored in non-volatile memory on the motherboard and is loaded by the BIOS or UEFI into volatile memory on the CPU during boot. And because the ...

Intel is releasing a microcode update to motherboard partners for new BIOS releases on 13th and 14th-gen supporting boards. These updates are strongly recommended for everyone with a Raptor Lake ...

Binyavanga Wainaina attacked insulting clichés in the essay, “How to Write About Africa,” in 2005. In a posthumous collection of the same name, his range as a writer is on display.

Intel has scaled back its plans to produce microcode updates for some of its older processors to address the "Spectre variant 2" attack. Core 2 processors are no longer scheduled to receive ...