Just a plain BIOS update can be enough to give your PC a second wind.

Amazon dropped the Intel Core Ultra 5 245K to $179.99 on Friday — approaching its lowest retail price ever, 42% below the chip's $310 launch price from October 2024 — and the timing forces a concrete ...

The Intel 80386 is a rather fascinating slice of computer history. It marked the first 32 bit X86 processor, and was a staple ...

The PorteuX project has officially released PorteuX 2.6, bringing a new round of updates to the lightweight Slackware-based ...

There are many ways you can implement an Intel i386 CPU on an FPGA, with the use of original microcode probably being one of the most interesting approaches. This is what [nand2mario]’s z386 project ...

The new attack method can leak privileged kernel memory on CPUs released in the past six years that have hardware mitigations for speculative execution and branch injection attacks like Spectre. Six ...

The new class of vulnerabilities in Intel processors arises from speculative technologies that anticipate individual computing steps. Openings enable gradual reading of entire privilege memory ...

Suppose you’re a Raptor Lake guru (Raptor Lake is Intel's codename for the 13th as well as 14th generations of Intel Core processors). In that case, you might’ve noticed that Intel just rolled out ...

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 ...

WTF?! The Arrow Lake fiasco has become increasingly absurd. Intel had promised to address the ongoing performance issues with its new processors by January 2025. However, the latest firmware updates ...