I thought the 3 year thing was standard for many years, pretty much as long as there have been retail-boxed CPUs. I think the logistics of a long term CPU warr

I thought the 3 year thing was standard for many years, pretty much as long as there have been retail-boxed CPUs. I think the logistics of a long term CPU warranty might be difficult too; aside from a few perennial, typically embedded market, products, manufacturers want to close out product lines and keeping warranty spares for decades becomes a burden. Imagine the fracas at the RMA office: "He says he doesn't WANT a new 14900KS, he wants a 50MHz 486SX2 to replace the one that blew out, and he has the state attorney general on line 2."