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Unveiling the Evolution: A Journey Through the History of the CPU

In the ever-expanding realm of technology, few inventions have had as profound an impact as the Central Processing Unit, or

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11th Gen Intel Core S-series desktop processors launched worldwide today

The 11th Gen Intel® Core™ S-series desktop processors (code-named “Rocket Lake-S”) launched worldwide today, led by the flagship Intel® Core™

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CacheOut/L1DES – New Speculative Execution Attack Affecting Intel CPUs (CVE-2020-0549)

CVE Number – CVE-2020-0549 Intel has advised customers that researchers have identified another speculative execution attack method that can be

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CPU- and GPU-boundedness

Microsoft wrote this article to explain two key terms: CPU-bound and GPU-bound. There’s some misinformation about this terms, and we’re

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NetCAT CPU Vulnerability [CVE-2019-11184]

CVE number – CVE-2019-11184 A race condition in specific microprocessors using Intel (R) DDIO cache allocation and RDMA may allow

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Computing Processor PortSmash Side-Channel Information Disclosure Vulnerability [CVE-2018-5407]

CVE number – CVE-2018-5407 A vulnerability in the design of most modern CPUs using Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT)/Hyper-Threading could allow a

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Spectre 1.1 and 1.2 Vulnerabilities Disclosed

Two new vulnerabilities exploiting flaws in CPUs speculative execution have been recently disclosed. Dubbed Spectre 1.1 and 1.2, both are variants

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Intel x86 Debug Exception Vulnerability [CVE-2018-8897]

The poor implementation of a statement in Intel’s x86 programming manual can cause privilege escalation or denial-of-service on all operating

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