Collaborate Disseminate
Despite the rise of ARM processors in more and more computers from embedded systems to daily driver PCs, the x86 architecture maintains a stronghold in the computing space that won’t …read more Continue reading A Modern PC With a Retro OS
Intel and AMD today announced the formation of an x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group aimed at countering the threat from Arm.
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On an x86 system the BIOS is the first part of the system to become active along with the basic CPU core(s) functionality, or so things used to be until …read more Continue reading Reverse-Engineering the AMD Secure Processor Inside the CPU
For most people, you turn on your computer, and it starts the operating system. However, the reality is much more complex as [Thasso] discovered. Even modern x86 chips start in …read more Continue reading A 64-bit x86 Bootloader from Scratch
[Michael Kohn] started programming on the Motorola 68000 architecture and then, for work reasons, moved over to the Intel x86 and was not exactly pleased by the latter chip’s perceived …read more Continue reading Comparing x86 and 68000 in an FPGA
Intel processors, at least for PCs, are ubiquitous and have been for decades. Even beyond the chips specifically built by Intel, other companies have used their instruction set to build …read more Continue reading A System Board for the 8008
While we don’t see it used very often these days, BASIC was fairly revolutionary in bringing computers to the masses. It was one of the first high-level languages to catch on …read more Continue reading BASIC Classroom Management
As I’m sure many of you know, x86 architecture has been around for quite some time. It has its roots in Intel’s early 8086 processor, the first in the family. …read more Continue reading Why x86 Needs To Die
[Raymond Chen] wondered why the x86 ENTER instruction had a strange second parameter that seems to always be set to zero. If you’ve ever wondered, [Raymond] explains what he learned …read more Continue reading x86 ENTER: What’s that Second Parameter?
Lenovo, AMI and Insyde have released patches for LogoFAIL, an image library poisoning attack. Continue reading Widespread Windows and Linux Vulnerabilities Could Let Attackers Sneak in Malicious Code Before Boot