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by johnklos 703 days ago
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.