The Indirector attack discovered by University of California San Diego researchers focuses on the indirect branch predictor of a CPU. Five years after the Spectre and Meltdown CPU attacks rocked the ...
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 ...
In the world of modern CPUs, speculative execution, where a processor guesses ahead on branches and executes instructions before the actual code path is confirmed, has long been recognized as a ...
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,' ...
If you recall, some benchmarks for AMD's new Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5"-based desktop processors were well behind the expected performance gains compared to the previous generation. Those expectations were ...
Neural network-based branch prediction techniques represent a significant advancement in processor architecture, where machine learning models replace traditional, heuristic-based mechanisms to ...