Microsoft said today that it would take Intel CPU microcode updates meant to fix the Spectre v2 vulnerability and ship these updates to users via a Windows update package. The announcement is a change ...

Microsoft released an emergency out-of-band update for its supported Windows platforms this weekend, but to remove rather than add a new security feature: Intel's faulty microcode update, designed to ...

Microsoft announced this week that it made available some Intel Skylake microcode updates that address Spectre variant 2 types of attacks for the Windows 10 Fall creators update (version 1709). Most ...

Microsoft has released a new batch of Intel microcode updates for Windows 10 2004, 1909, 1903, and older versions to fix hardware bugs in Intel CPUs. When Intel finds bugs in their CPUs, they release ...

The root cause was identified as a flawed microcode, which is essential for managing the low-level operations of the CPU. In response to this issue, Intel extended the warranty for all affected ...

Historically speaking, even when it wasn't the absolute fastest option, Intel has always been 'competitive' with longtime rival AMD in terms of CPU gaming performance. That is actually still the case ...