Qualcomm prepares to give Apple’s chip a good kicking
Published in PC Hardware


Let’s see if your marketing can cover this up

Qualcomm’s new plans to beef up its PC processors seem designed to show Apple’s Arm designs up as comparatively steam driven.

It is the 50th anniversary of the Intel 4004 microprocessor
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The world changed

Yesterday was the 50th birthday of the the Intel 4004 microprocessor, which was the first computer chip carved onto silicon.

New rowhammer is a hacker’s dream
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Non-uniform patterns cause RAM to bitflip

A new flavour of row hammer can bypass all mitigations that are deployed inside DRAM.

Chipzilla finds two high-severity vulnerabilities
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Wide range of processor families

Intel has disclosed two high-severity vulnerabilities that affect a wide range of Intel processor families, allowing threat actors and malware to gain higher privilege levels on the device.

Asus and Gigabyte provide support for Ryzen 5000 series support
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A320 users have an upgrade path

Asus and Gigabyte have enabled Ryzen 5000 series support on many of their A320 boards.