“Over the last 3–4 months, we have observed that CPUs initially working well deteriorate over time, eventually failing,” he claims. “The failure rate we have observed from our own testing is nearly 100%, indicating it’s only a matter of time before affected CPUs fail.”

Not used to seeing significant age-related degradation in silicon used under normal conditions. Sounds like Intel dun goofed…

Raptor Lake

And Meteor Lake. Raptor Lake is 13th gen, Meteor Lake 14th gen.

Australia-based indie dev studio Alderon Games made its frustrations with Intel’s latest chips public in a write-up titled, “Intel is selling defective 13-14th Gen CPUs,” authored by the studio’s founder Matthew Cassells.

Oh fuck, just ordered an NUC with intel raptor lake processor, time to return I guess