Recently, AMD disclosed a vulnerability in the AMD Platform Security Processor (PSP) chipset driver that allows malicious actors to dump memory pages and exact sensitive information such...

Break out the broken chips

Break out the broken chips

From our Ampere Altra Max M128-30 Linux performance preview earlier this week, one of the questions a number of readers were wondering about and a question I also still had open was on the Altra Max pricing..

Occasionally my machine will have a kernel_task instance max out the CPU:
This can last from minutes to sometimes hours. The machine is effectively unusable in this state. Restarting doesn't help; ...

Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

Recently, AMD disclosed a vulnerability in the AMD Platform Security Processor (PSP) chipset driver that allows malicious actors to dump memory pages and exact sensitive information such...

The sirens were place a couple years ago when I received a bug report claiming that I caused 100% CPU util on a VM when it should have been idle. I was suspicious at first because I try my best to avoid patterns such as while(true) and for(;;). The support...

Software fixes for the problems are coming later this month.

Build retro games using WebAssembly for a fantasy console

AMD and Microsoft previously warned of performance issues.

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Sapphire Rapids with HBM to use BGA packaging.

AMD and Intel recently started changing how the x86 chip architecture will handle exceptions. Linus Torvalds, in turn, gave his take on their new approach for forthcoming generations of CPUs.

AMD is also bringing its 3D-V cache tech to a Zen 3 Ryzen chip early next year that'll still use the AM4 socket.

But is the fault on Windows 11 requirements with Microsoft?

Over the past few months, Intel has been drip-feeding information about its next-generation processor family. Alder Lake, commercially known as Intel’s 12th Generation Core architecture, is officially being announced today for a November 4th launch. Alder…

So we have something very interesting for our readers today. We were able to exclusively get our hands on the first-ever benchmarks for Intel's upcoming Alder Lake mobility processors - which are going to go head to head against the Apple M1 Max processors…

So we have something very interesting for our readers today. We were able to exclusively get our hands on the first-ever benchmarks for Intel's upcoming Alder Lake mobility processors - which are going to go head to head against the Apple M1 Max processors…