• Intel microcode is microcode that runs inside x86 processors made by Intel. Since the P6 microarchitecture introduced in the mid-1990s, the microcode...
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  • machine sequencing in many digital processing components. While microcode is utilized in Intel and AMD general-purpose CPUs in contemporary desktops and laptops...
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  • Pentium Pro in 1995. This has allowed bugs in the Intel Core 2 microcode and Intel Xeon microcode to be fixed in software, rather than requiring the entire...
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    I486 (redirect from Intel 80486DX)
    AMD's 486 processor – one reverse-engineered from Intel's microcode, while the other used AMD's microcode in a clean-room design process. However, the settlement...
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    Introduced January 1, 1981 as Intel's first 32-bit microprocessor Multi-chip CPU Object/capability architecture Microcoded operating system primitives One...
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    the Intel 8086 processor". — (March 2023). "Reverse-engineering the register codes for the 8086 processor's microcode". — (April 2023). "The microcode and...
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    "Intel's latest microcode update fails to fix Arrow Lake performance issues". Techspot. Retrieved January 31, 2025. Intel (January 6, 2025). "Intel Extends...
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    Raptor Lake (redirect from Intel 14th gen)
    tree circuit, resulting in instability. Intel claims these issues have been since fixed in the latest microcode patches, which requires updating the motherboard's...
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    X86 (redirect from Intel 80x86)
    set computer (CISC) instruction set architectures initially developed by Intel, based on the 8086 microprocessor and its 8-bit-external-bus variant, the...
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    X86-64 (redirect from Intel 64)
    (model-specific registers), while Intel 64 implements microcode update unchanged from their 32-bit only processors. Intel 64 lacks some MSRs that are considered...
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    UEFI firmware. Intel processors have reprogrammable microcode since the P6 microarchitecture. AMD processors have reprogrammable microcode since the K7...
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    reverse-engineered clone of the Intel 8080, and the Am2900 bit-slice microprocessor family. When Intel began installing microcode in its microprocessors in...
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  • randomization (KASLR) on all major operating systems. In 2021, Intel released a microcode update that disabled the TSX/TSX-NI feature on CPU generations...
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    Alder Lake (redirect from Intel alder lake)
    Alder Lake is Intel's codename for the 12th generation of Intel Core processors based on a hybrid architecture utilizing Golden Cove performance cores...
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    August 2014 when a microcode update disabled TSX due to a bug that was discovered in its implementation. While Ivy Bridge is the last Intel processor to fully...
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    Pentium (original) (redirect from Intel P5)
    referred to as the i586 or P5 Pentium) is a microprocessor introduced by Intel on March 22, 1993. It is the first CPU using the Pentium brand. Considered...
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    original MCS 51 instruction set. The original Intel 8051 was a microcode engine using 12 clocked microcode cycles per machine cycle to minimize the number...
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  • 2017-04-29. Intel Releases Linux CPU Microcodes To fix Meltdown & Spectre Bugs by Lawrence Abrams on January 11, 2018 Linux* Processor Microcode Data File...
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    The iAPX 432 (Intel Advanced Performance Architecture) is a discontinued computer architecture introduced in 1981. It was Intel's first 32-bit processor...
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  • is that Intel should just have documented the TLB behavior better." Microsoft has issued update KB936357 to address the errata by microcode update, with...
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    Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware...
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    simply copy Intel's microcode, and that the microcode in the V20 and V30 was sufficiently different from Intel's to not infringe Intel's copyright. The...
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  • NEC Corp. v Intel Corp. (1990), NEC sought declaratory judgment against Intel's charges that NEC's engineers simply copied the microcode of the 8086 processor...
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    2011. "June 2015 Intel CPU microcode update for Windows". Retrieved 2020-11-07. "Windows 7: June 2015 microcode update for Intel processors in Windows"...
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    Xeon (redirect from Intel Xeon)
    a brand of x86 microprocessors designed, manufactured, and marketed by Intel, targeted at the non-consumer workstation, server, and embedded markets...
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    The Intel 4004 was part of the 4 chip MCS-4 micro computer set, released by the Intel Corporation in November 1971; the 4004 being part of the first commercially...
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    February 9, 2016, Intel announced that it would no longer allow such overclocking of non-K processors, and that it had issued a CPU microcode update that removes...
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    problematic Intel Microcode fix—which had, in some cases, caused reboots, system instability, and data loss or corruption—issued earlier by Intel for the...
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    rate of the 80186 was 6 MHz, but due to more hardware available for the microcode to use, especially for address calculation, many individual instructions...
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  • 2010-10-03. "Intel(R) 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual, Volume 3A: System Programming Guide, Part 1, Chapter 8.11: "Microcode update facilities""...
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