When he's not battling bugs and robots in Helldivers 2, Michael is reporting on AI, satellites, cybersecurity, PCs, and tech policy.

AMD explains that a correction for an fTPM error has been available for years. Manufacturers just don't deliver it. AMD has been providing corrected firmware updates ...

Did you or someone you know build an AMD Ryzen machine only to be frustrated by strange stuttering issues? These problems have always existed in certain Ryzen systems, but only with the release of ...

Have you encountered any strange stutters throughout your performance on Ryzen and Windows 10/11?? The lag is most likely due to hardware issues rather than issues with Microsoft's user interface. AMD ...

In brief: AMD earlier this year identified an issue causing headaches for select Ryzen CPU users in Windows 10 and Windows 11. The chipmaker promised a fix was in development and now, it's starting to ...

Motherboard manufacturers are addressing AMD's stuttering issue in Windows 10 and 11 with a new BIOS update. The (intermittent) performance losses and stuttering are caused mostly by the TPM 2.0 ...

The softly-spoken Linux creator Linus Torvalds has expressed his slightly-growing frustration with AMD's fTPM (firmware Trusted Platform Module) issues and bugs. In fact, it has become so bad that ...

A hot potato: It wouldn't be the first time AMD's firmware bugs caused performance issues for Ryzen users, but the company has identified a new one related to fTPM that affects Windows 10 and Windows ...

Windows 11 has been around for just under four months now, quickly becoming the second most popular version of Microsoft's operating system among gaming PCs. While it will undoubtedly eventually ...

AMD has confirmed that some Ryzen CPUs can stutter when the fTPM module onboard the chip is activated. The company is working on a fix, but it won’t arrive until “early May” or possibly later, ...