AMD's answer is its Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 series. These chips debuted with a fizzle on the gaming front, but subsequent firmware ...

Abstract: Microcode provides an abstraction layer over the instruction set to decompose complex instructions into simpler micro-operations that can be more easily implemented in hardware. It is an ...

CPU manufacturers must address issues that arise with processors already on the market, especially the errors that are discovered over time. To handle this, Intel has released a new version of ...

Intel’s patch for CPUs designed to prevent new vulnerabilities in the company’s processors resulted in performance hits on older Intel chips. The exploit was identified by researchers from ETH ZZurich ...

Intel has confirmed that it's about to issue another microcode update for its 13th-gen and 14th-gen Raptor Lake CPUs, meaning you'll need to update your motherboard BIOS again. As with the raft of ...

AMD has released mitigation and firmware updates to address a high-severity vulnerability that can be exploited to load malicious CPU microcode on unpatched devices. The security flaw (CVE-2024-56161) ...

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 issued ...

ASUS ROG has released its latest BIOS updates for Intel Z890 motherboards, featuring Intel’s 0x114 microcode designed for the new Core Ultra desktop processors. These updates aim to improve gaming ...

TL;DR: Cyberpunk 2077's update 2.2 significantly boosts performance with Intel Arrow Lake CPUs, potentially by up to 33%. That's before Intel's planned microcode updates to enhance performance with ...