MIT's Fractal OS has found the first evidence of Apple M1 Phantom speculation and overturned prior research on the M1's conditional branch predictor, challenging the assumption that Apple Silicon is ...

Intel reported first-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street expectations Revenue rose more than 7%, a sign that the chipmaker is finally starting to see some growth. The stock has been a Wall Street ...

In today’s 2 Minute Tech Briefing, hackers exploit an Adobe Reader flaw to profile victims, DARPA develops a new AI communication language through MATHBAC, and Intel joins the massive Terafab chip ...

Sixteen miles north of Albuquerque, in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, an Intel chip plant sits on more than 200 acres of land. The site was established in the 1980s, part of it built on top of a sod farm. In ...

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 ...

CPU manufacturers must address issues that arise with processors already on the market, especially the errors that are discovered over time. To handle this, Intel has released a new version of ...

Most modern Windows PCs rely on Microsoft Defender as their first line of defense against malware. Over the years, it has evolved into a capable and often underrated antivirus that blocks a wide range ...

President Donald Trump is moving to bolster critical industries by taking equity stakes in private companies, a step the White House says is vital for national security but that some experts warn ...

A team of computer scientists from ETH Zurich has uncovered a new security vulnerability that affects all Intel processors. This issue is linked to a technology called speculative execution, which ...

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 ...