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Intel says its Raptor Lake crashing chip nightmare is over


Warranty, mitigations, and a root cause diganosis.

Intel may have one less worry on its very full plate: it believes it has now fully addressed its desktop CPU instability woes with 13th and 14th Gen “Raptor Lake” chips. Intel® has localized the Vmin Shift Instability issue to a clock tree circuit within the IA core which is particularly vulnerable to reliability aging under elevated voltage and temperature. “To be clear, The BIOS and microcode updates will not fix processors that already are experiencing instability from Vmin shift,” writes Intel spokesperson Mark Anthony Ramirez.

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