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[–] 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

What is the issue with Intel CPUs? I'm OOTL here.

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Some of their 13th and 14th generation CPUs have manufacturing defects that resulted in oxidation. In some use cases (servers and such), failure rates sometimes reached 50%. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVdmK1UGzGs

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    and they kept denying there was an issue, until there was so much proof that they couldn't deny it any more and were like "okay fine there's an issue so we're going to be extra generous and extend your warranty one whole year"

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They were probably trying to run out the warranty period. (for legal reasons, this is speculation)

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    In countries like Australia that have good consumer protection, they'd have to replace failed CPUs even outside of the warranty period, because they've still failed in a time frame shorter than a regular person would expect a CPU to last. The USA really needs better consumer laws.

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