Collaborate Disseminate
Whereas the CPUs and similar ASICs of the 1970s had their transistors laid out manually, with the move from LSI to VLSI, it became necessary to optimize the process of …read more Continue reading Looking At Standard-Cell Design in the Pentium processor
The flaw, in Intel VTune Profiler, could enable privilege escalation. Continue reading Intel Fixes High-Severity Flaw in Performance Analysis Tool
While Microsoft no longer supports those of its operating systems that were in heavy use into the early 2000s, support for old hardware is not typically something that you will have to worry about if you run Linux on your machines. Sure, there will be driver issues from time to …read more
[Gamozolabs’] post about Sushi Roll — a research kernel for monitoring Intel CPU internals — is pretty long. While we were disappointed at the end that the kernel’s source is not exactly available due to “sensitive features”, we were so impressed with the description of the modern x86 architecture and …read more
Continue reading Sushi Roll Helps Inspect Your CPU Internals