The article is about Atom Clover Trail cpus, not Core 2 cpus so, while interesting, it does not apply to your issue.
This hardware aging issue is nothing new, of course. The panic described in the article is about a family of cpus that are not actually very old. My thought is that the wave of cheap, small Windows 8 tablets of just a few years ago were never going to
be long-lived except in their original W8 configurations. I have a couple that I have tried to maintain as Windows 10 Home devices and there always seems to be something going wrong. The one with 1GB of ram could not upgrade to Creators Update via WU with
stock W10 so the trick turned out to be to set it up in Slow Ring. Then it upgraded, although it does it in stages and takes all afternoon to do it. It continues to upgrade and is now running 16232. But it upgrades slooooowly.