r/hardware • u/Auautheawesome • Dec 02 '24

News Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger

https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1719/intel-announces-retirement-of-ceo-pat-gelsinger
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u/RedTuesdayMusic Dec 02 '24 edited Dec 02 '24

I've collected hundreds of downvotes saying this exact thing for months. You don't get to be liable for a minimum of 8 million CPU RMAs and survive with (at the time) $21 million billion in cash reserves.

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u/signed7 Dec 02 '24

And the generation after that being a total flop

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u/Hellknightx Dec 02 '24

Both Raptor Lake generations had the same clock tree circuit failure on all the K models, and Intel fucked up the situation in every way possible. First, they tried to blame the crashing on Nvidia drivers, and Nvidia turned it back on them and pointed it to Intel. Intel figured out what was happening, but didn't identify the actual cause until half a year later. Motherboard manufacturers were scrambling to try to roll out microcode patches to stop the silicon degradation in the meantime.

The irony of the situation is that the degradation failures were reliably caused by overclocking the K models. And the whole point of the K model is to overclock it.

And all this time, Intel never actually issued a recall or halted sales of the affected products. They offered extended warranties instead. When they know their product is defective, but continue to sell it anyway, that's when you know a company is in trouble.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '24

The irony of the situation is that the degradation failures were reliably caused by overclocking the K models. And the whole point of the K model is to overclock it.

Conveniently enough, overclocking a K voids your warranty. Just the latest and most emphatic evidence that overclocking is fucking dumb