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NEWTON, Mass. -- Fabless semiconductor startup ChipWrights Inc. here today announced it has licensed compiler and debugger technology from Metrowerks, a development tool supplier owned by Motorola Inc ...

The Meltdown and Spectre flaws—two related vulnerabilities that enable a wide range of information disclosure from every mainstream processor, with particularly severe flaws for Intel and some ARM ...

There are various types of kernel drivers; the first that come to mind are device drivers that provide a software interface to hardware devices like plug and play interfaces or filter drivers. These ...

A significant redesign of the Windows, MacOS, and Linux kernels is needed to patch up an Intel processor security flaw. Modern Intel processors from the past decade are affected by the flaw. Exact ...

A computer cannot meet its requirements unless it communicates with its external devices. An interrupt is a communication gateway between the device and a processor. The allocation of an interrupt ...

The use of a real-time multitasking kernel simplifies the design process of embedded software, but the kernel requires some portion of system's resources. This paper describes results of research work ...

If you see a warning message, The speed of processor x in group y is being limited by system firmware in Windows Event Viewer, read this post to learn how to address the warning. The message ...