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Intel refers to them as drivers.
I was once trained to consider drivers and modules the same thing, but there appears to be a distinguishing difference.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/47208/what-is-the-difference-between-kernel-drivers-and-kernel-modules
Most kernel level drivers are modules (though they don't have to be compiled that way), but many modules are things other than drivers.
That's accurate to the second link.