This is a collection of Latest Production Intel, AMD, VIA and Freescale CPU microcodes. You can use MC Extractor to check instantly whether a microcode is already at the repository. Please report any ...

CPU microcode represents low-level instructions essential for the proper CPU functioning, acting as a bridge between the CPU’s architecture and the electronic circuits that execute instructions.

On January 8th Intel released new Linux Processor microcode data files that can be used to mitigate the Spectre and and Meltdown vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs. Using microcode files, an operating ...

Those who recover disk drives know how easy it is also to destroy them. This week’s column, Awaiting the PC Killers, discusses the possibility of using such knowledge to create highly destructive ...

Google researchers recently published proof-of-concept code demonstrating the ability to create malicious microcode patches on AMD processors from Zen 1 through Zen 4. This vulnerability would allow ...

My understanding was that a CPU microcode update is stored in non-volatile memory on the motherboard and is loaded by the BIOS or UEFI into volatile memory on the CPU during boot. And because the ...