When homebrewing a CPU, one has to deal with microcode. Microcode is the low-level nuts and bolts of how, precisely, a CPU executes instructions (like opcodes) and performs functions such as ...

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Now, Intel has admitted that there's actually a problem with the CPU microcode causing "elevated operating voltage" in affected processors and is planning on rolling out a mid-August microcode ...

Intel admitted that there's a problem with the CPU microcode causing "elevated operating voltage" in affected processors and rolled out a microcode patch to prevent the issue. This 0x129 patch ...

Researchers from ETH Zurich found a way around Spectre mitigations on Intel The chipmaker released microcode patch ARM and AMD chips are not affected this time Spectre, a series of chip ...

In the idiosyncratic Y-Cruncher test, we did see the new microcode slightly fall behind the older one, but only just so, and it certainly doesn't change this Intel CPU's position in the rankings.

Intel’s 13th- and 14th-generation Core desktop CPUs have been the subject of controversy for months now, with instability and performance issues resulting in crashes and permanent damage for ...

It's been months since the first reports of Intel's Core i9 processors being unstable in Unreal Engine games, but a small step toward a solution has been made, with the discovery in the code that ...

The cause of this issue has been traced back to erroneous CPU microcode (this is the firmware that runs on the processor, controlling low-level operations), causing the chip to ask for more power ...

Intel has communicated that this microcode update resolves an issue that ... and prevents any damage or further damage to the CPU. However, affected CPUs will still be damaged and require a ...