I got the same output as Jody dmesg | grep microcod [ 0.000000] CPU0 microcode updated early to revision 0xa4, date = 2010-10-02 [ 0.497666] microcode: CPU0 sig=0x6fd, pf=0x80, revision=0xa4 [ 0.497679] microcode: CPU1 sig=0x6fd, pf=0x80, revision=0xa3 [ 0.497799] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.00 <tigran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Peter Oruba ,and I have two cores. Albeit mine are quite old.