A crucial defense layer just vanished from millions of chips without warning. Unpack the firmware update that exposes PC ...

AMD memory encryption is returning to consumer Ryzen 9000 desktop chips after the company reversed a silent AGESA 1.2.7.0 ...

The change came to light in April, when Ben Kilpatrick installed a new OS on a Ryzen 7 9700X system built on AMD's Zen 5 ...

AMD silently disabled TSME memory encryption on consumer Ryzen chips via a firmware update. The feature still works on Pro CPUs. AMD won't say why.

New AMD Ryzen firmware is out which patches a security flaw related to the TPM and Pluton. The vulnerability impacts 9000, 8000, and 7000 series Ryzen CPUs. Last week, the Trusted Computing Group (TCG ...

AMD says it will reinstate firmware memory encryption (TSME) on non-PRO Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs through a BIOS update in July ...

We have some good—but not great—news about a small number of AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processors that seem to be experiencing crashes: If you have an ASRock motherboard, a BIOS update is coming your way ...

X3D Turbo Mode reportedly does a few things to improve performance on 3D V-Cache CPUs. First and most obviously, it limits operations to a single core complex die (CCD). CPUs like the Ryzen 9 7950X3D ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. ASRock has announced the release of a "comprehensive BIOS update" for AMD AM5 motherboards, now available. ASRock has confirmed that it has been working ...

The Framework Laptop 13 is a modular repairable laptop that first debuted in 2021. But thanks to the fact that the processor (and just about every other component) can be removed and replaced, the new ...

An AMD EPYC 4545P processor-powered server sustained higher OLTP performance vs. a comparable system and a legacy ...