AMD Zen hardware and Intel Coffee Lake affected If you thought the world was done with side-channel CPU attacks, think again.

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Intel recently announced the details of the company's forthcoming family of processors, codenamed Penryn, which is slated for release in the second half of this year. These new processors benefit from ...

Security researchers from the Swiss public university, ETH Zurich, recently discovered a new Spectre-BTI (Branch Target ...

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The Spectre-like CPU branch target injection (BTI) breaks the guest-host layer in virtualized environments, introducing a new ...

Intel Corp. has integrated virtual radio access network acceleration into its latest 4th Gen Intel Xeon system-on-chip, helping network operators gear up their efforts to deliver cloud-native features ...

A new Spectre-like attack dubbed VMScape allows a malicious virtual machine (VM) to leak cryptographic keys from an ...

Intel will pay AMD $1.25 billion settlement and agree to a set of business practice provisions to end litigation Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) are calling a truce and burying the legal ...

Intel's announcement with VMware, which comes roughly one month after AMD announced its would preload Xen open source virtual software on its AMD64 systems in the first half of 2005, promises ...

There are already industry benchmarks for CPUs, mail servers and a wide range of other IT technologies — and by this time next year, virtualization users may have an industry-sanctioned benchmark.