which led to Intel suing NEC over copying the microcode that forms an integral part of the x86 architecture. In a recent The Chip Letter entry by [Babbage] this case is covered in detail.

In March, Intel said that it was developing microcode fixes for processors as old as the 45nm Core 2 chips (built on the Penryn architecture) and the first-generation Core processors (built using ...

The key makes it possible to decrypt the microcode updates Intel provides ... or Atom—that’s based on Intel’s Goldmont architecture. The genesis for the discovery came three years ago ...