[PedroBatista]

Good for Intel to finally "figure it out" but I'm not 100% sure microcode is 100% of the problem. As in everything complex enough, the "problem" can actually be many compounded problems, MB vendors "special" tune comes to mind.

But this is already a mess very hard to clean since I feel many of these CPUs will die in an year or 2 because of these problems today but by then nobody will remember this and an RMA will be "difficult" to say the least.

[johnklos]

You're right - at least partly. If the issue is that Intel was too aggressive with voltages, they can use microcode updates as 1) an excuse to rejigger the power levels and voltages the BIOS uses as part of the update, and 2) they can have the processor itself be more conservative with the voltages and clocking it calculates itself.

Anything Intel announces, in my experience, is half true, so I'm interested to see what's actually true and what Intel will just forget to mention or will outright hide.