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AMD K8 has reprogrammable microcode

August 16, 2004 | Hardware, Security | By: Mark VandeWettering

Real World Technologies lists an interesting article about the AMD K8 processor and its previously unnoticed ability to patch its own microcode. Apparently AMD has used this to repair a couple of bugs in the processor in the past, but nobody really noticed it before. A couple of quotes from the article: The ability to […]