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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 ...

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AMD has addressed the latest issue regarding its Zen 5 CPUs’ behavior when it comes to the utilization of the RDSEED instruction in 16-bit and 32-bit applications. Discovered by a Meta engineer last ...

The explosion of AI tools means fewer programming jobs and more competition. Here’s why experts say some programming certifications are still worth your time. If you’re a software developer or ...

Currently, an efficient binary encoding is the only way to represent MicroCode programs, which means the only reasonable way to create them is within the MicroCode editor. We want a simple text-based, ...

A hot potato: Users with 13th- and 14th-generation Intel desktop processors should begin checking for BIOS updates from their motherboard providers. A new microcode update fixes edge cases that can ...

Intel has confirmed that it's about to issue another microcode update for its 13th-gen and 14th-gen Raptor Lake CPUs, meaning you'll need to update your motherboard BIOS again. As with the raft of ...

Two years ago, when visiting research colleagues in Uppsala, Sweden, we were asked a deceptively simple question: “What does it mean to program?” For context, one of us had just completed academic ...

AMD has released mitigation and firmware updates to address a high-severity vulnerability that can be exploited to load malicious CPU microcode on unpatched devices. The security flaw (CVE-2024-56161) ...

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 ...