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 ...

OpenBSD is expanding its support by finally being able to apply AMD CPU microcode updates. It was reported that this comes with the latest code, which supports the update with new abilities. OpenBSD ...

Microsoft said today that it would take Intel CPU microcode updates meant to fix the Spectre v2 vulnerability and ship these updates to users via a Windows update package. The announcement is a change ...

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 ...

Today has some good news for AMD users it seems. The host of MSI‘s Insider Show on YouTube, Eric Van Beurden, has leaked a pretty big update. They revealed that AMD’s Ryzen CPUs would get a new ...

Update: This story has been updated at 12:04 PM to include Intel’s explanation of the new microcode. If your PC includes an Intel processor, it will likely receive a mysterious new update originally ...

Own an Skylake or Kaby Lake processor with Hyper-Threading? It may be a good time to update your system UEFI/BIOS and CPU microcode. A critical flaw in Intel’s implementation of Hyper-Threading was ...

Something to look forward to: Intel's plan to address voltage-related crashes on desktop processors with a patch has some worried that performance and overclocking will take a hit. Past updates to ...

A dangerous potato: After researchers revealed the initial details of the Sinkclose security issue, AMD announced that a firmware update would be coming for some of its desktop, mobile, and server ...

When Meltdown and Spectre were uncovered, AMD said that its CPUs aren’t vulnerable to Meltdown, the first Spectre flaw would be resolved via operating system and software updates, and “differences in ...