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Subject: Intel overvoltage (was: Arguments for a sane ISA 6-years later)
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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