the community needs the transparency on what quote committed to making this right with our customers actually means because that means all at this point and there's a problem where these companies like to put out statements about we're going to support and make it right and whatever but without a hard commitment of what that means active Outreach to people uh actually have a list for Intel so we'll make this easy Intel here's the roadmap

short answer we can confirm there was a via oxidation manufacturing issue addressed back in 2023 but it is not related to the instability issue first this is just more unclear language from Intel back in 2023 is an incredible ly wide range uh in fact you might say it's almost a year and that's a that's a huge amount of time be nice to actually know what that range was

Intel is delivering a micro code patch which addresses exposure to elevated voltages which is a key element of the instability issue we are currently validating the micro code patch to ensure the instability issues for the 13th and 14th gen are addressed

it is not connected and then only some of them are connected the only some wipes out that it is not obviously so that means it is at least somewhat related to the instability issue uh and then of course the excessive voltage is one that that path everyone's kind of been on for months now at this point alongside the power behav pl1 pl2 actually were before the voltage discussion uh

A physical issue known as oxidation can cause instability and failure in Intel's CPUs, especially the 13th and 14th generations. This problem is not fixable with firmware updates, but a Fab-level change resolved it.

There are two main types of instability in Intel's CPUs: voltage-related and oxidation-related. Voltage-related instability can be caused by excessive voltage, which can lead to degradation and failure over time.

Intel is releasing microcode and BIOS updates in August to address the oxidation issue, but the updates may not be sufficient to fix all instability problems.