Historically speaking, even when it wasn't the absolute fastest option, Intel has always been 'competitive' with longtime rival AMD in terms of CPU gaming performance. That is actually still the case ...

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 ...

Microsoft has released a new batch of Intel microcode updates for Windows 10 20H2, 2004, 1909, and older versions to fix new hardware vulnerabilities discovered in Intel CPUs. When Intel finds bugs in ...

Intel has spent most of 2024 investigating and trying to fix a problems that was causing crashes and instability for owners of its high-end 13th- and 14th-generation Core desktop processors. In April, ...

Microcode 0x12B “addresses elevated voltage requests by the processor during idle and/or light activity periods.” Microcode 0x12B “addresses elevated voltage requests by the processor during idle ...

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 this week released microcode updates to its original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and partners in a bid to curb Meltdown and Spectre attacks. According to a Feb. 7 announcement by Navin Shenoy ...

Spectre, along with Meltdown, has been one of the most severe threats recorded in recent history affecting the modern microprocessors, including those manufactured by Intel. Earlier this year, ...

Microsoft has released new Intel microcode updates for older versions of Windows 10 to address the recently disclosed Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) attacks that affect Intel CPUs. Microsoft ...

In its recently updated "Microcode Revision Guidance" document (PDF), Intel shared details about the progress of its firmware patches to address potential Meltdown and Spectre attack scenarios. The ...

Intel's Raptor Lake CPUs have been exhibiting instability for quite some time now, and the company has begun to take steps to address it this year. Several updates have been announced in the past few ...

Apparently, Intel does not like its customers overclocking their new Haswell chips on non-Z87-equipped motherboards. Several of the large motherboard manufacturers have released workarounds that allow ...