Thread: How does the Skylake fix work?
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Old January 13th 16, 01:01 PM posted to comp.sys.intel,alt.electronics
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Default How does the Skylake fix work?
On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 12:03:30 -0000 "Mr Macaw" wrote in
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Just out of interest, how does a hardware bug in a CPU get fixed by a software BIOS update? Isn't the bug a physical misconnection in the circuits?

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