Re: Intel overvoltage

On 7/29/2024 11:28 AM, Thomas Koenig wrote:

Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> schrieb:
 [Topic divergence]
 

Delivering working hardware is the job of hardware
engineers.

 Which they sometimes mess up, see Intel's recent overvoltage
fiasco.  If anybody damaged their CPU that way, well...
 Microcode updates will fix the cause, maybe, but damaged chips
stay damaged.
 See
 https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/26/24206529/intel-13th-14th-gen-crashing-instability-cpu-voltage-q-a

Saw a thing where they apparently (in the mix of all of this) also had an issue (mostly with a subset of 13th gen chips) where O2 was leaking into the machines and was contaminating some of the chips (also leading to degradation and failure), but the over-voltage issue applied to both sets of chips (and was the main problem for 14th gen; as by this point they had already found/fixed the leak).
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