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Re:Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading by sqldba on Monday June 26, 2017 @12:31AM (#14634107)
Windows update applies CPU patches?!

I know they did AMT but that was a special case and different.

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Re:Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading by lorenzhs on Monday June 26, 2017 @07:55AM (#14636007)
Seems like they do when it fixes serious bugs, a quick search yields e.g. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3064209/june-2015-i... ("This update fixes several issues with Intel CPUs that could cause computer crashes or functions incorrectly.")
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