Like many other pieces of hardware, CPUs themselves have errata which are discovered after shipping, and need to be addressed in the field. Microcode can be considered as firmware for the processor, ...

CPU microcode represents low-level instructions essential for the proper CPU functioning, acting as a bridge between the CPU’s architecture and the electronic circuits that execute instructions.

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 ...

False alarm: despite a patch notes suggesting otherwise, that mysterious blob of microcode released for many Intel microprocessors last week was not a security update, the x86 giant says. In an email ...

Microsoft announced this week that it made available some Intel Skylake microcode updates that address Spectre variant 2 types of attacks for the Windows 10 Fall creators update (version 1709). Most ...

Intel’s much-anticipated 0x114 microcode patch has started rolling out to Z890 motherboards despite not being released officially, and the ASRock Z890 Taichi OCF is one of the first boards to see the ...

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 ...

#include <stdio.h> int main(int argc, char **argv) { if (argc == 2) { printf("2\n"); return 1; } printf("1\n"); return 0; } When compiled and thrown into ida, when ...

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 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 ...