Disastrous handling of the situation... Intel can and should do better. They don't have an universal, or hell, a lead at all over the competition. Best not to get complacent.
It would be impossible to do a recall 2 years after release. How many units are we actually talking about? Hundreds of thousands? Millions maybe?
But seems like the issue is the single rail that feeds pcores / ecores / cache. Remember a couple of weeks ago I said that my 12900k gets immediate degradation on the cache at or above 1.4v? Well, since over 1.4v is kinda common for 13 and 14th gen, it looks like it's the cache that goes kaput.
Probably the microcode update will cap the cache at 4ghz instead of the stock 4.5 and that's it
Nevermind, they said their microcode won't fix the issue. So they will just make sure new chips don't degrade and RMA the problematic ones.