What a mess. Intel should be out in front of this, but they are going to kick the can down the road and hope some of the problem goes away. No system integrato

What a mess. Intel should be out in front of this, but they are going to kick the can down the road and hope some of the problem goes away. No system integrator has the infrastructure to handle replacing vast numbers of CPU's and entire systems where the CPU is soldered to the mainboard and cannot be replaced. Also, there's no way this problem suddenly snuck up on them without warning. They had customers returning massive numbers of them, but Intel kept selling defective units instead of stopping production. They absolutely knew about this as soon as problems started popping up. A microcode patch may make it stable, but if you have a dud, you have a dud. There's no way to patch around defects in manufacturing of this nature. Microcode can reduce frequencies, but a defective part is still defective. How PG still has a job is beyond me.