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.
