From CPUs that overheated to those with poor performance—plus some that nearly killed the companies that made them.

Over on Hackaday.io, [Zoltan Pekic] has been busy building a stack of tools for assisting with verifying and debugging retro computing applications. He presents his take on using Intel hex files for ...

Intel is preparing to release a critical microcode update aimed at resolving an issue that has affected its 13th Gen processors since their launch. The update, expected by mid-August, comes after ...

Abstract: The effectiveness of transient execution defenses rests on obscure model-specific operations that must be correctly implemented in microcode and applied by software. In this paper, we study ...