cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34564216

Impacted CPUs:

  1. Arrow Lake
  2. Core Gen 13 Raptor Lake
  3. Core Ultra 200V Lunar Lake
  4. Xeon Scalable Gen3 and newer through Xeon 6 Sierra Forest / Granite Rapids
  5. Xeon D-17xx / Xeon D-27xx
  • neclimdul@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 days ago

    Simply put, modern processors aren’t just converting instructions directly into transistors, they actually have code that controls how they operate. That’s the microcode.