> then the defect is scheduled for being corrected in a new revision of the CPU Note that Intel very rarely issue new revisions of existing models nowadays. Pr

> then the defect is scheduled for being corrected in a new revision of the CPU Note that Intel very rarely issue new revisions of existing models nowadays. Probably creating new masks is too expensive. They simply include some fixes in new models. Probably likewise for all vendors for high-perf but non-critical applications. And probably they all try to let the microcode cover more things via chicken bits or other methods, to avoid the risk of having to do catastrophic recalls.