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Old January 13th 16, 07:57 PM posted to comp.sys.intel,alt.electronics,uk.rec.driving
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Default How does the Skylake fix work?

Mr Macaw wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 13:01:40 -0000, Trent .****of
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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?


Microcode updates.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/microcode


So the bug was in the firmware of the CPU, not the physical circuitry?

I've never heard of or done a CPU firmware update. Are they included
with motherboard BIOS updates?



Just add it to the long list of other things that you have never heard of,
PHucker.
Such as getting a job, meeting a woman.
You are A ******.