StackWarp is a hardware flaw affecting AMD Zen 1–5 CPUs that allows privileged hosts to execute code inside SEV-SNP ...

A new PassMark database entry has put Intel’s P-core-only “Bartlett Lake” chatter back on the radar, after months with little ...

Continuing his reverse-engineering of the Intel 8087, [Ken Shirriff] covers the conditional tests that are implemented in the microcode of this floating point processing unit (FPU). This microcode ...

Ronan] likes 35mm film photography, but the world, of course, has gone digital. He picked up an Epson FilmScan 200 for about ...

ASUS has started distributing BIOS updates incorporating AGESA 1.2.7.0 for its AM5 800-series motherboards, a firmware revision that embeds microcode tied to the upcoming Zen 5-based “Krackan Point” ( ...

AMD has officially confirmed a high-severity security vulnerability in its new Zen 5–based CPUs, and it’s a nasty one because it hits cryptography right at the source: the hardware random number ...

TL;DR: AMD has identified a security flaw, "EntrySign," affecting Zen 1 to Zen 5 CPUs, allowing attackers kernel-level access by bypassing microcode signature verification. A fix has been issued via ...

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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 ...

What just happened? AMD has confirmed a security vulnerability in some of its processors, which was inadvertently revealed through a beta BIOS update from Asus. The flaw, described as a "microcode ...