My understanding was that a CPU microcode update is stored in non-volatile memory on the motherboard and is loaded by the BIOS or UEFI into volatile memory on the CPU during boot. And because the ...

When homebrewing a CPU, one has to deal with microcode. Microcode is the low-level nuts and bolts of how, precisely, a CPU executes instructions (like opcodes) and performs functions such as updating ...

AMD has risen in rank thanks to its Ryzen launch and is once again a competitive force in the enthusiast market, but the roll out has not been without some bumps in the road. There are two main issues ...

Chipzilla’s latest "0x114" microcode update appears unable to resolve persistent performance issues plaguing its Arrow Lake-S processors. Recent benchmarks have revealed further degradation making ...

In a nutshell: AMD's Ryzen 9000 series CPUs represented a significant improvement in many areas. However, some eagle-eyed reviewers and users noticed a potential drawback: core-to-core latency was ...

A post on Gigabyte's own US forums claims a new update will fix the current flaky memory compatibility blighting some AM4 boards and some Ryzen CPUs. When? Well, it should appear in the next round of ...

After nearly three months of back-and-forth with different updates, Intel is pushing out new production-ready microcode for several of its chips, including its Ivy Bridge Broadwell designs, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

In an update on its efforts to combat Spectre and Meltdown, Microsoft says it is now starting to distribute microcode updates from Intel. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Microsoft has released multiple microcode updates that mitigate additional variants of the speculative code execution vulnerabilities affecting Intel processors. The patches cover the recently ...