Thread: How does the Skylake fix work?
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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?

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