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 ...

In case you missed it, Intel earlier this week issued a statement saying it finally discovered the root cause of widely reported instability on its 14th Gen and 13the Gen Core processors. Intel also ...

Since its release in October, the Intel Core Ultra 200S, also known as Arrow Lake-S during testing, has received two microcode updates—transitioning from version 110 to 112, and then to 113—without ...

If you needed any further confirmation that AMD's "Granite Ridge" desktop processors sporting the Zen 5 architecture were on their way before long, the latest piece of evidence is an update for the ...

Intel is quite known for playing around and pointing fingers. Intel will never admit it. They will always play around and dodge any kind of confrontation about it, and OEM's will never try to address ...

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 ...

前回までに紹介してきたように、 initrdは元々、 モジュール化されたカーネル・ ドライバを、 HDD上のファイルシステムを介することなくカーネルに組み込むための仕組みとして考案されました。 きちんと確認したわけではないものの、 initrdのルーツは ...