Consumer AMD CPUs will once again offer encryption protections against physical attacks after facing user backlash for silently removing the feature. About a decade ago, AMD added TSME to its high-end ...

A newly surfaced report suggests AMD has quietly disabled Transparent Secure Memory Encryption (TSME) support on consumer Ryzen processors through its AGESA 1.2.7.0 firmware release. The change was ...

TL;DR: About a decade ago, AMD added Transparent Secure Memory Encryption to its high-end processors to close a gap in hardware security. TSME encrypts everything in RAM, which blunts cold-boot ...

AMD confirmed June 20 that it will restore Transparent Secure Memory Encryption to consumer Ryzen 9000 desktop processors through a BIOS update scheduled for July — reversing a silent security feature ...

AMD has confirmed that it will restore Transparent Secure Memory Encryption (TSME) support on consumer Ryzen processors after previously removing the feature through AGESA firmware updates. The ...

Shortly after getting negative press for refusing to pay a $10,000 bug bounty for a significant vulnerability, AMD is back in the news for all the wrong reasons. The company seems to have dropped a ...

A decade ago, AMD added a protection to its high-end CPUs to protect them against cold boot attacks and other types of physical exploits that siphon sensitive data out of the connected memory chips.

UPDATE 06/22: In a statement to PCMag, AMD acknowledges that a BIOS option to enable Memory Guard on certain non-PRO Ryzen 9000-series desktop processors "was previously available but was removed in a ...

AMD silently disabled TSME memory encryption on consumer Ryzen CPUs via firmware. The silicon still supports it, but AMD says it’s now PRO-only. AMD has silently disabled a security feature on its ...

AMD entered the data center GPU race in 2023 with the MI300X. It was designed to compete with Nvidia's H100, which was the leading-edge product at the time. AMD has since launched several new ...

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