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Does Skylake have an unusual amount of errata?

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DS9VOY

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I just noticed that Gigabyte has posted yet another CPU microcode update BIOS for my motherboard. (Z170X gaming 5)

My understanding is that microcode updates are classified by Intel. (They don't usually say what they fix, why they are issued, or even how microcode updates are applied) They are issued to address defects ("errata") found in a CPU. So, I know we won't get any info on this.

I'm just surprised to see yet another microcode update so soon after the Skylake launch. Makes me wonder if maybe all is not well with Skylake, and maybe this could explain the supply shortages of most of the Skylake chips?
 
SGX is a business oriented feature tho.

Completely useless for a gamer.

But else no, Skylake is fine 🙂

Microcode isn't just about errors either. Better functionality, improvements, new SKU support etc.
 
This is Intel's big problem. I thought they'd be using something larger than micro code by now.
 
Define that "unusual amount".

Skylake has a lot, but not awful lot. Compared to the mobile SoCs with more than a thousand errata Skylake is a flawless product.
 
Skylake has 53 known erratas. In comparison, Broadwell has 89 erratas and Haswell 153.

Supply shortages could be for several things, probably shortage in the productivity of the new fabrics with 14nm to not be able to supply the demand, waiting for the eliminations of stock from vendors...
Erratas doesn't seem one of them, that would mean a big enough problem to stop selling any chip.
 
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