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Intel is still the leading CPU manufacturer worldwide, but the competition is stronger than ever.  The rapid recent rise of AMD is reflected in the impressive Ryzen range, while Apple has successfully moved away from Intel and embraced its own silicon. After a few years of minor updates, Intel shifted to a new hybrid architecture with the launch of 12th-gen Alder Lake chips. It seems to have been a success, with significant improvements to both performance and power efficiency. However, not all CPUs have…

It’s official — the source code for the Intel Alder Lake BIOS was leaked, and Intel has confirmed it. A total of 6GB of code used for building the BIOS/UEFI source code is now out in the wild, having been posted on GitHub and 4chan. Intel doesn’t seem too concerned, but security researchers are now hard at work trying to see if this can be used in a malicious way. If you own an Alder Lake CPU, should you be worried? I can't believe: NDA-ed MSRs, for the newest CPU, what a good day… pic.twitter.com/bNitVJlkkL…

Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: Intel confirms their proprietary UEFI code appears to have been leaked by a third party; the Alder Lake BIOS source code was leaked to 4chan and GitHub — Hack's perpetrator and origins remain unknown. — We recently broke the news that Intel's Alder Lake BIOS source code had been leaked … Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: Intel confirms their proprietary UEFI code appears to have been leaked by a third party; the Alder Lake BIOS source code was…

We recently broke the news that Intel's Alder Lake BIOS source code had been leaked to 4chan and Github, with the 6GB file containing tools and code for building and optimizing BIOS/UEFI images. We reported the leak within hours of the initial occurrence, so we didn't yet have confirmation from Intel that the leak was genuine. Intel has now issued a statement to Tom's Hardware confirming the incident:"Our proprietary UEFI code appears to have been leaked by a third party. We do not believe this exposes any new security…

An unknown individual has purportedly leaked the source code for Intel's Alder Lake BIOS onto 4chan, and a duplicate copy now appears to be posted to GitHub. The files are contained in a 2.8 GB zip file that expands to 5.86 GB after decompression, but we haven't been able to verify if the contents therein are genuine and actually contain sensitive source code. News of the purported leak comes via Twitter postings from @glowingfreak and @vxunderground. We have reached out to Intel for comment. The source code to the Intel…

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Intel has launched its Alder Lake mobile processors for IoT. These new processors, previously codenamed Alder Lake PS (opens in new tab), are designed to deliver dramatic increases in single- and multi-threaded edge applications and enhanced graphics and AI acceleration. There are four performance tiers with the top Alder Lake mobile chips with HL suffix featuring up to 14C/20T, clock speeds up to 4.8 GHz, up to 96 Iris Xe EUs, and up to a max 45W TDP.From the intro, you will feel the Alder Lake PS series brings more…

While Intel plans to pull in release dates of its 13th Generation Core 'Raptor Lake' processors for notebooks, and many of these CPUs are set to be released later this year, until today, no benchmark results of those chips have leaked. Yet as Intel's partners begin to test new processors, some of their findings inevitably hit the Web.Today someone accidentally (or purportedly) published benchmark results of Intel's Core i5-13600HX processor in BAPCo's CrossMark benchmark (opens in new tab) (via @momomo_us (opens in new…

Linux support with webcams has reportedly become a major issue in regards to 12th Gen Alder Lake laptops right now, as showcased by a recent Phoronix article. Linux kernel maintainer, Greh Kroah-Hartman, says causal users should steer clear of Alder Lake laptops using Linux if they want to make video calls on their machines. Issues surrounding mainline kernel support for webcams have made webcam support almost nonexistent.Hartman says - ironically, that Linux support with Alder Lake has been really good. But for some…