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 ...

With only 1,000 MEG X870E Godlike X Editions being made by MSI, you might feel that this is a motherboard that could never grace your PC. Fortunately, it's practically identical to the standard X870E ...

The CPU is a simple stack virtual machine with a specialized reduced instruction set. Execution algorithm: The VM fetches an opcode from system memory pointed by CS:IP. There is a table of instruction ...

SGX-Step is an open-source framework to facilitate side-channel attack research on Intel x86 processors in general and Intel SGX platforms in particular. SGX-Step consists of an adversarial Linux ...

Intel stock jumps 8% as it ships first 18A Panther Lake Core Ultra Series 3 chips; rollout details, AI performance, and $50 ...

Intel is preparing to release a critical microcode update aimed at resolving an issue that has affected its 13th Gen processors since their launch. The update, expected by mid-August, comes after ...