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 ...

Vulnerability in the memory management of AMD processors allows researchers to break confidential computing integrity ...

VMScape (tracked as CVE‑2025‑40300) is described by researchers from ETH Zürich as “the first Spectre-based end-to-end ...

To protect a host system from a malicious virtual machine using the Spectre exploit, the kernel uses an Indirect Branch ...

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 ...

We're starting to see more and more system designs that clearly have as a target virtualized workloads. Dell's the latest example. Gordon Haff is Red Hat's cloud evangelist although the opinions ...

Software vendors such as IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle have priced their server-based software--databases, application servers, and operating systems--according to the number of CPUs the software runs on ...

Intel and AMD dominate x86 enterprise servers because of their hardware-assisted virtual machine (HVM) support. Intel and AMD dominate x86 enterprise servers because of their hardware-assisted virtual ...

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 ...

While ARM continues to make inroads into the personal computing market against traditional chip makers like Intel and AMD, it’s not a perfect architecture and does have some disadvantages. While it’s ...

Optimizing any system is a multi-layered problem, but when it involves a processor there are at least three levels to consider. Architects must be capable of thinking across these boundaries because ...