CPUs

CPUs, or Central Processing Units, are the primary hardware components in computers that execute instructions and perform calculations for software applications.

Why it’s in the news: CPUs are in the news due to security vulnerabilities like the TONTOU attack, their increasing role in AI, and a controversy over AMD's removal of memory encryption in consumer chips.

Latest on CPUs

• MIT boffins' TONTOU attack slips through Spectre defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs
• Why AI's next chapter belongs to CPUs
• Why CPUs are now at the center of the AI race
• Following user outcry, AMD reinstates memory encryption in consumer CPUs
• Users cry foul after AMD stripped memory crypto from its consumer CPUs
• Snowflake to burn $6B on AWS Graviton CPUs and AI accelerators

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