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Subject: Re: Intel overvoltage
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 11:52:35 -0500
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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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