A team of Google researchers has discovered an exploit allowing users to write and insert their own microcode on AMD chips ...

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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 ...

The Ryzen 9 9950X3D maintains the high boost clocks of the 9950X but adds an extra L3 cache chip to boost performance—and it delivers.

The main processor of any computer – its central processing unit (CPU) – relies on the steady pulse and specific frequency generated by a clock signal to synchronise its internal functions.