Intel breaks silence on 13th and 14th-gen Raptor Lake desktop CPU instability issues

"Gamers Nexus, on the other hand, thinks the issue is more deep rooted and originates from a foundry-level fault."

The GN piece makes it very clear that this claim is not definitely true but is a line of inquiry.
Intel statement does not definitely exclude this hypothesis, the flawed CPU might need the lower voltage to work around the flaw.
The obvious question this article does not address is what will be the performance hit for the patched parts?

That's a bit annoying to see GN so grossly misquoted when Steve spends half the run time of the video explaining that they are not sure of anything at this point.

Intel confirmed on reddit that oxidation did impact some chips.
More than one thing can be wrong at the same time, so everybody can be right!
- They admitted that there was an oxidation defect and they haven't started a recall or even listed serial numbers?
Steve does go on, and on, and on, and on... Quite challenging, if you have a tight deadline.
- He's just really thorough. They have a text-based website too if you prefer that format for reviews, but they don't always have time to make text articles of their investigative pieces and news reports.
  https://gamersnexus.net/
- For most of their videos you can just play it in the background.
  But that said, why are you watching any youtube videos if you have a "tight deadline"?

Nice one Intel. My next computer certainly will not contain an Intel CPU.

I wish someone would start making desktop motherboards with socketed RISC-V and ARM CPUs.

Why I chose AMD in 2019.
risc v wouldn't be worth much right now but snapdragon I could see getting socketed at some point.
Ampere? https://www.ipi.wiki/products/ampere-altra-developer-platform
- That would be great for a server, but 1.7GHz is a bit slow for a desktop.
- Ampere is pretty slow compared to AMD and Intel.
  https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-xeon-6700e-ampere-altra/6

AMD stock should have gone through the roof on this news.

Fyi. AMD has gone down 13% this week. Intel went up today.
- No clue why. AMD is killing it right now, and they're just slaughtering Intel's positions in the market for the next number of years.
- Everyone's excited for Battle mage
- I think insiders already knew about this problem. It would explain why the stock has been dropping over the past few months.

Go with amd for now.

This doesn't seem like the whole story, and it's awfully convenient that everything will be fixed AFTER the AMD launch next week, when they've known about this issue for over a year.

Alderon Games is accusing Intel of running damage control here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/1e9mf04/comment/leg5umu/

It's not the whole story. After Intel's press release about voltage issues and an upcoming microcode patch, they quietly snuck out an admission that there is an oxidization problem after all. It smells like they're trying to downplay that and avoid having to replace their faulty CPUs.
https://youtu.be/OVdmK1UGzGs?si=P4QfyLmAW3dUJ7nE

Level1Tech looked a good amount into it and he's not convinced microcode updates, which they have released many, will fix the issue.

They won't, since Intel has quietly admitted now that there is an oxidization issue too. Microcode can't fix that, and if it can work around it, it will do so at a significant performance cost.