Well if it does react it won't be positively! Intel has been hinging their future on becoming a general purpose fab (like a Western TSMC) and the CEO even said he was open to making chips for AMD and Nvidia. But if their manufacturing process has major defects and contamination then they might as well scrap all of that. They're not coming off as trustworthy here either so who is going to want to have their products made by them?
There is no indication it’s a broad manufacturing problem. It was contamination on Intel 7 that happened in 2023 and was resolved, and is not responsible for the instability issues in the majority.
I think the real issue with the manufacturing problem is that Intel never said in 2023 "hey everyone, we had a manufacturing problem that affects all intel 13th gen cpus up until day X. We are offering RMAs for all affected units". As such, over a year later, no one outside of Intel knows exactly whether their chips are having instability due to this.
No tech company is going to announce every single wafer that’s ever been etched and reworked or has some random process problem that causes a discard or a batch failure. It happens constantly, 10-20% of chips being rejects or salvages is a good outcome.
obviously that’s not the case here, but as a rule yeah, your cpu could have been reworked or something and it’s not normal for any brand to tell you that.
If wallstreetbets has taught me anything it's that it'll probably go up 200% as soon as you sell against all logic, because it was priced in all along.
