INTELSISTERS SEETHING AND COPING 
They teased it earlier this morning with this tweet
https://x.com/G*mersNexus/status/1819002394186744136
steves hair is getting kind of grey
intel allegedly knew about the raptor lake situation since 2022????????
intel had a really rough quarter, losing 25% stock value, cutting 15% of their workforce, halting dividends, and getting rid of the free employee fruit
the fab is running on a "skeleton crew", causing issues like manufacturing errors.
extremetech was the first to break the story that intel was indeed at found for the BSOD issues on raptor lake CPUs. Intel blamed its microcode update and fixes it
intel rolls out a fix that required people to update their bios, after this people found more issues with the 13900k
radgamecowtools releases the first bombshell article, claiming that intel was at fault for issues on Oodle and Unreal. (oodle is one of the most popular decompression libraries used for games)
they point the figure squarely at the 13900k and 14900k processors, but also mention that the 13700 and 14700 series may be at fault too 
intel drops its first public statement in feburary of 2024, two years after they knew about this issue
intel decides to blame mobo manufacturers for the issues, despite knowing that its their fault
alderon games releases a post bluntly stating that intel CPUs are crashing way too frequently on them, and that they are switching to AMD
they stated that intel CPUs crashed 100x more frequently that AMD CPUs 
epic games makes a statement saying that fortnite is also experiencing crashes on 13900k/kf/ks and 14900k/kf/ks processors.
intel claiming now that yes, there was an oxidation issue in 2023, but "it is not related to the instability issue"
that passage was edited to state ""only a small number of instability reports can be connected to the manufacturing issue" 
steve goes off on some janny from the /r/intel subreddit for deleting a comment that was critical of intel. he stated that "the subreddit is functionally indistinguishable from an official platform for intel". this moderator apparently has beef with hardware unboxed, and HU basically confirms the mod is an intel shill
intel is referring to this as a "big problem" internally
so this is a huge blunder for intel. they were seriously doing well with intel arc, and their CPUs were actually catching up somewhat to AMD, but this might tank their reputation. i'm not fully convinced that this will be the end of intel, because they receive billions from the US government. i was actually considering getting an intel CPU, but at the last minute i bought a 7800x3d 
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Intel is way too big to fail because of an issue like this especially when it's consumer chips and not Xeon.
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i think xeon is a huge boon for intel. if i recall correctly intel makes a 50% profit margin on xeons, and server centers make up at least 30% of their profit.
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Is that the one where it's like 100 cpus duct taped together? I remember seeing that and laughing.
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You're thinking of Xeon Phi.
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Xeon is just the server/workstation line of CPUs.
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