I’m retired now, but for 30 years I debugged problems in bleeding-edge IBM processors, horizontal microcode, firmware, ...

ASUS releases BIOS 2102 with AGESA 1.3.0.0a to fix BitLocker recovery loop issues on AM5 600 and 800 series motherboards.

ASRock releases AM5 BIOS with AGESA 1.3.0.0a to fix Ryzen 9000 no-POST issues, memory training errors, and boot instability.

You're probably expecting us to be talking about one of the extant Bartlett Lake processors based on re-reheated Raptor Lake silicon. Nope! This is a Core 9 273PQE, one of the long-rumored 12 P-core ...

Asus and Acer enthusiasts in Germany are frustrated after being cut off from support for their high-end systems. Tom's Hardware reports that the companies' German sites ...

Over on Hackaday.io, [Zoltan Pekic] has been busy building a stack of tools for assisting with verifying and debugging retro computing applications. He presents his take on using Intel hex files for ...

Even if your PC seems to be working fine, you should still update the BIOS.

An interesting detail about the Intel 8087 floating point processor (FPU) is that it’s a co-processor that shares a bus with the 8086 or 8088 CPU and system memory, which means that somehow ...

Your SSD's firmware is its soul that drives every critical operation ...

We rundown the biggest flops in the PC processor world, from the Cyrix 6x86 to AMD Bulldozer and Intel Pentium 4.

Abstract: The open and royalty free nature as well as the extendable design of the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) has lead to a sprawling ecosystem of RISC-V software and hardware. One of ...

Turns the Raspberry Pi Pico into an AVR programmer via SPI programming mode. Instructions are streamed using the serial port to the Raspberry Pi Pico via USB which handles the rest. Verifies flashed ...