Automotive applications need “smarter” drivers for their switches, which handle loads ranging from a fraction of an ampere to several amperes. Not only are these smart chips costly, but many times, ...

Microsoft announced today a new security feature for the Windows operating system. Named "Hardware-enforced Stack Protection," this feature allows applications to use the local CPU hardware to protect ...

Intel released a new CPU model this week, the Intel Core i9 7900X, which is the latest model to feature a new cache architecture that hardware experts believe it will make exploitation of side-channel ...

i just found a neat little trick...<BR><BR>i have quite a little collection of socket 7 pentiums, and k6/k6-2 cpus, and admittidly some of the pins were bent on some of them. i used to painstakingly ...

Engineers working on system design often face the need to implement pin-level digital logic on input and output signals. For example, systems engineers working on clock propagation through a ...

AMD has issued a statement addressing the alarming reports of dead Ryzen 7000X3D processors in relation to burned motherboard sockets and bulging CPU pin pads. The statement confirms AMD is actively ...

AMD has expanded its Embedded G-Series family to include an x86 SoC, codenamed Steppe Eagle, and an x86 CPU codenamed Crowned Eagle. The Steppe Eagle SoC is said to offer a 60% performance jump from ...

Got a new/refurb mobo from Intel for my new server.<br>God-dam thing was broken and in fact I thought it also killed one of my cpus.<br>One of the pins from my P3 was left inside the socket !!!! - ...