Inside every modern CPU since the Intel Pentium fdiv bug, assembly instructions aren’t a one-to-one mapping to what the CPU actually does. Inside the CPU, there is a decoder that turns assembly into ...
Microsoft said today that it would take Intel CPU microcode updates meant to fix the Spectre v2 vulnerability and ship these updates to users via a Windows update package. The announcement is a change ...
The root cause was identified as a flawed microcode, which is essential for managing the low-level operations of the CPU. In response to this issue, Intel extended the warranty for all affected ...