The code that drives the decoder is the CPU’s microcode, and it lives in ROM that’s normally inaccessible. But microcode patches have been deployed in the past to fix up CPU hardware bugs ...

Yet rather than using the Intel provided design files, NEC reverse-engineered the Intel CPUs, which led to Intel suing NEC over copying the microcode that forms an integral part of the x86 ...

However, new Intel 13th/14th Gen buyers might need to fear no more because Intel's not only released a preventative fix in the form of a 0x129 microcode patch but has also just identified the root ...

One might have thought all the Intel stability issue malarkey was behind us, given the official 0x129 microcode fix came out back in August. However, although this update was supposed to fix the ...

By the summer, Intel had tracked down one root cause of the problems and had released a microcode update to resolve it: The CPUs were making “elevated voltage requests,” which could degrade ...

Intel discovers the root cause of 13th-14th Gen CPU issues & releases microcode updates. Four scenarios causing instability ...

Intel has announced the deployment of microcode update 0x12B aimed at resolving the Vmin offset instability observed in its 13th and 14th series desktop processors, as they have now identified the ...

Several updates have been announced in the past few months, including one in July that promised a remedy for the issue via a microcode update. However, that was still somewhat of a band-aid on the ...

Intel has just announced a new microcode update for its 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake processors — the ones that could possibly get permanently damaged and begin to crash your PC. While there ...

The company also announced it would be releasing a new microcode update to mitigate this flaw, and surprisingly, the new code is already appearing in new beta BIOSes from motherboard manufacturers.

Now, alongside the results of its lengthy investigation, Intel is also rolling out a second microcode update to hopefully put these issues to bed once and for all. The root of the problem ...

Although Intel recognized the root cause of failures among 13th and 14th Generation Core 'Raptor Lake' processors in late ...