It's something to do with certain conditions in their boost code causing the CPU to request extra voltage it doesn't need.
Having seen how much chaos a 0.1 increase in voltage can do while trying to figure out overclocking, I can definitely believe that requesting X% too much voltage constantly would fuck up the CPU quickly.
Estimated 50% of the chips will either die or have significant performance problems, but up to 100% can't meet the advertized performance without being unstable.
Intel says their manufacturing process had some contamination problems causing corrosion and thus degrading the chips.
But their chips were also pushed way too much to try and score higher than the competition, and they have an upcommming ''micro-code update'' that will ''fix the issues''... and significantly lower performances ( in other words, even if your Intel CPU dosen't die, it won't perform as advertised ).
It is unclear which CPUs among the 13th and 14th gens have these problems, and Intel is not being transparent at all, which is unsurprising but still frustrating.
No matter what, Intel will have to compensate costumers. Either willingly, or after a class-action lawsuit they are guaranteed to lose.
They just failed to meet the new NOx emission standarts and set-up a fraudulent scheme to fool testing.
Intel's 13th and 14th gen CPUs don't ''drive'' as fast as advertised ( best case scenario ), the ''car'' shuts-down randomly and dosen't roll straight or steady ( 50%-100% pre code update), or it just fucking dies after a short while. ( 25% - 50% ).
Will it last weeks? Months? Two years? Nobody knows with the Intel Corrosion Roulette!
InB4 Intel saying it's normal for a CPU to die after 2 years. I never had a CPU die on any of my computers since I got one. 10 years +, if it hasen't been sent for recycling yet, it still works but I don't use it anymore because it's too outdated.
Are they just running too hot?
What else would cause a functioning CPU to destroy itself?
It's something to do with certain conditions in their boost code causing the CPU to request extra voltage it doesn't need.
Having seen how much chaos a 0.1 increase in voltage can do while trying to figure out overclocking, I can definitely believe that requesting X% too much voltage constantly would fuck up the CPU quickly.
Apparently the CPU's internal software was requesting too high a voltage, which is what's doing the damage.
Estimated 50% of the chips will either die or have significant performance problems, but up to 100% can't meet the advertized performance without being unstable.
Intel says their manufacturing process had some contamination problems causing corrosion and thus degrading the chips.
But their chips were also pushed way too much to try and score higher than the competition, and they have an upcommming ''micro-code update'' that will ''fix the issues''... and significantly lower performances ( in other words, even if your Intel CPU dosen't die, it won't perform as advertised ).
It is unclear which CPUs among the 13th and 14th gens have these problems, and Intel is not being transparent at all, which is unsurprising but still frustrating.
No matter what, Intel will have to compensate costumers. Either willingly, or after a class-action lawsuit they are guaranteed to lose.
Sounds like “dieselgate” but for chips
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal
Similar, but Volkswagen's car still worked fine.
They just failed to meet the new NOx emission standarts and set-up a fraudulent scheme to fool testing.
Intel's 13th and 14th gen CPUs don't ''drive'' as fast as advertised ( best case scenario ), the ''car'' shuts-down randomly and dosen't roll straight or steady ( 50%-100% pre code update), or it just fucking dies after a short while. ( 25% - 50% ).
Will it last weeks? Months? Two years? Nobody knows with the Intel Corrosion Roulette!
InB4 Intel saying it's normal for a CPU to die after 2 years. I never had a CPU die on any of my computers since I got one. 10 years +, if it hasen't been sent for recycling yet, it still works but I don't use it anymore because it's too outdated.
30+ years here. Never once.
entirely fake scandal. nobody cares about muh emisshuns, but they do care about their expensive computer cooking itself to death.