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They did, once upon a time, after a fashion:

I had to read that billg-review thing one more time. It's such a wonderful story.

Didn't Torvalds already accept Intel's "garbage" Linux kernel patches?

I don't think so, they're still under discussion on LKML, including an alternative proposal by Ingo Molnar.

Nah, it's just the well-known issue with the microcode being buggy. There's nothing new really.

Microcode is not reviewed by anyone outside of Intel.