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Intel Isolated 13th & 14th Gen Instability Issues Linked to Degraded Clock Tree Circuit

Posted on 2024-09-27 Edited on 2025-11-01

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After Intel's Root Cause Analysis of 13th and 14th gen instability linked to microcode bug that delivered higher than optimal voltage degrading the CPU ultimately causing instability, Intel has released a microcode update to mitigate the issue. Now, Intel's research has determined that due to higher voltage supplied the CPUs now requires a higher minimum voltage called Vmin and the issue is linked to clock tree circuit in the IA core causing a shift in processor duty cycle resulting in system instability.

Qualcomm Approaching Intel About Takeover Bid

Posted on 2024-09-23 Edited on 2025-11-01

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After Intel's disappointing FY results for Q3, Qualcomm is reportedly approaching Intel about a takeover bid according to WSJ rumours. The rumour states, Qualcomm was eyeing some of the client divisions related chip design and foundry services. At the moment not much concrete information is available. Even if the rumours are true, it is unlikely that Intel will accept a takeover bid to risk x86 licensing and other IPs.

Crucial MX500 SATA SSD Firmware M3CR046 Vulnerable to Buffer Overflow Attacks

Posted on 2024-09-15 Edited on 2025-11-01

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One of the popular and best selling SATA SSDs from Crucial aka Micron is affected by buffer overflow attack for firmware version M3CR046. According to CVE-2024-42642 report, a specially crafted ATA packets from host to drive controller can lead to buffer overflow and memory corruption issues.

AMD Plans to Unify RDNA and CDNA GPUs Into UDNA to Compete With Nvidia CUDA

Posted on 2024-09-10 Edited on 2025-11-01

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Jack Huynh, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Computing and Graphics Business Group of AMD has announced plans to unify CDNA and RDNA into single UDNA architecture to compete against Nvidia CUDA and bring better development experience in a statement to Tom's Hardware.

TSMC Arizona Achieves Near Yield Parity as TSMC Taiwan and Production on Schedule

Posted on 2024-09-10 Edited on 2025-11-01

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TSMC has announced their Arizona factory is now on par with Taiwanese production in terms of yield and low wafer defects. This makes TSMC's efforts to expand and fabricate advanced chips in American soil a success.
It will soon start volume production in 2025 and follow up with second fab in 2028 to advanced their ongoing efforts to make 2nm and sub 2nm chips with investments around $65 Billion with $6 Billion from Chips Act and $5 Billion as loan from US govt.