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 ...

Le microcode est un programme composés de micro-instructions dont l'exécution au sein du processeur ou microprocesseur définit le jeu d'instructions de celui-ci. Dans le cas de microprocesseurs ...

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Vous pensiez en avoir fini avec les problèmes de stabilité des processeurs de 13e et 14e gen Intel ? Visiblement, la marque n'avait pas véritablement corrigé le problème, et propose encore un ...

Microsoft has released a new batch of Intel microcode updates for Windows 10 2004, 1909, 1903, and older versions to fix hardware bugs in Intel CPUs. When Intel finds bugs in their CPUs, they release ...

Intel and its partners have begun rolling out the microcode update that will fix stability and degradation issues with 13th and 14th Gen Intel Core desktop CPUs. The update arrived slightly ahead of ...

AMD est donc en train de déployer un nouveau microcode AGESA à destination de ses processeurs. Ce dernier se nomme V2 PI 1.2.0.7 et il apporte une correction majeure. En effet, cet AGESA permettra la ...

For an old CPU, finding all the valid instructions wasn’t very hard. You simply tried them all. Sure, really old CPUs might make it hard to tell what the instruction did, but once CPUs got illegal ...

Intel has announced the deployment of microcode update 0x12B aimed at resolving the Vmin offset instability observed in its 13th and 14th series desktop processors, as they have now identified the ...

The Intel Microcode Boot Loader creates a bootable USB flash drive that automatically applies the latest Intel microcodes to your identified CPU so that you are protected from the speculative ...

Windows users running the latest version of Windows 10 on recent Intel processors will soon be receiving Intel's microcode updates to address the Spectre variant 2 attack. Intel has since fixed the ...

Intel reports that it has developed a stable microcode update to address the Spectre flaw for its Skylake, Kaby Lake, and Coffee Lake processors in all their various variants. The microcode updates ...