Understanding how hardware and firmware/software work together to perform desired functions or tasks is an important enabler to unlocking the value of intellectual properties in the systems (including ...

Inside every modern CPU since the Intel Pentium fdiv bug, assembly instructions aren’t a one-to-one mapping to what the CPU actually does. Inside the CPU, there is a decoder that turns assembly into ...

Windows users running the latest version of Windows 10 on recent Intel processors will soon be receiving Intel's microcode updates to address the Spectre variant 2 attack. Intel has since fixed the ...

Intel has released another round of firmware and driver updates, this time accompanied by 30 new security advisories. The microcode update, labeled version 20251111, covers nearly all recent Intel ...

Software based on the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) standard makes up the firmware of most modern desktop computers and servers. This software is largely invisible to users, critical to ...

Utter the word “firmware” to the average PC user, and you’ll likely elicit a blank stare in return. But the concept isn’t really that hard to understand, and once you have this knowledge, you can ...