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.

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 the 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.