An interesting finding in fields like computer science is that much of what is advertised as new and innovative was actually pilfered from old research papers submitted to ACM and others. Which is not ...

AMD's recent branch prediction optimizations, which significantly improved gaming performance on Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5" and Ryzen 7000 CPUs, are now available for Windows 11 23H2 users. This update offers ...

A new paper from IIT Hyderabad in India surveys dynamic branch predictors. Now accepted in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 2018, the survey by Sparsh Mittal reviews nearly 110 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Left and right bundle branch blocks are associated with increased rates of pacemaker implantation after ...

Researchers have found two novel types of attacks that target the conditional branch predictor found in high-end Intel processors, which could be exploited to compromise billions of processors ...

Researchers from the College of William and Mary, Carnegie Mellon, the University of California Riverside, and Binghamton University have described a security attack that uses the speculative ...

This week we’ve seen a tsunami of news stories about a vulnerability in Intel processors. We’re certain that by now you’ve heard of (and are maybe tired of hearing about) Meltdown and Spectre. However ...

A new technical paper titled “VMSCAPE: Exposing and Exploiting Incomplete Branch Predictor Isolation in Cloud Environments” was published by researchers at ETH Zurich. “Virtualization is a cornerstone ...

Modern Intel processors, including chips from the Raptor Lake and the Alder Lake generations are susceptible to a new type of a high-precision Branch Target Injection (BTI) attack dubbed 'Indirector,' ...

Security researchers at several American universities have collectively discovered another attack that can expose sensitive system data by exploiting modern CPUs. The attack, known as BranchScope, ...

In CPU instruction execution, predicting the outcome of a branch so that those instructions may be executed in parallel with the current instructions. If the CPU guesses the wrong branch, it will take ...