All 6th, 7th, and 8th generation Core processors now have microcode available. It will be interesting to see if this allows for some recovery of CPU performance that is lost when completely inhibiting ...

When Intel announced its 10nm process node would be delayed into 2019 -- and possibly into later 2019 at that -- it punched some significant holes into the company's product line that are still being ...

Historically speaking, even when it wasn't the absolute fastest option, Intel has always been 'competitive' with longtime rival AMD in terms of CPU gaming performance. That is actually still the case ...

WTF?! The Arrow Lake fiasco has become increasingly absurd. Intel had promised to address the ongoing performance issues with its new processors by January 2025. However, the latest firmware updates ...

Chipzilla’s latest "0x114" microcode update appears unable to resolve persistent performance issues plaguing its Arrow Lake-S processors. Recent benchmarks have revealed further degradation making ...

Microcode 0x12B “addresses elevated voltage requests by the processor during idle and/or light activity periods.” Microcode 0x12B “addresses elevated voltage requests by the processor during idle ...

Intel's Raptor Lake CPUs have been exhibiting instability for quite some time now, and the company has begun to take steps to address it this year. Several updates have been announced in the past few ...

As soon as the broader discussion about the Raptor Lake stability issues began, many people were already speculating that the potential "fix" would have a deleterious effect on performance. In essence ...

Many months ago, gamers began experiencing strange crashes with their 13th and 14th Gen Intel Core i9 CPUs — but that was just the tip of the iceberg. Intel has now extended its warranty by two full ...

Intel motherboard partners have started to roll out the first batch of microcode updates to address the issue known as Vmin Shift Instability. The iconic PC chipmaker blogged about this issue earlier ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally circa 2010. If he was forced to pick a favorite ...