If you refer to me as the "fanboy", then it is clear that you did not bother to read my "multiple paragraphs" in which I have criticized both Intel and AMD, as

If you refer to me as the "fanboy", then it is clear that you did not bother to read my "multiple paragraphs" in which I have criticized both Intel and AMD, as they both deserve. I have actually upvoted the poster who has accused me of being an Intel shill, because someone else had downvoted it and I prefer to reply to an opposing argument, instead of seeing it fading due to downvotes. There is no doubt that AMD should have done a recall in 2017, because all its first Ryzens were defective, causing data corruption, and their CPU design error was trivial to reproduce and discover by very simple testing, which AMD appears to have not done. The bug was not noticeable in Windows only because none of the Windows programs used by amateurs in 2017 was running 16 fully busy execution threads. For the current Intel case, that is not a CPU design error, but an error in the qualification of their manufacturing process, which is based on statistical correlations, not on any exact measurements or simulations, so it is hard to prove negligence. The CPUs may be defective or not defective, so a recall is not justified. In such cases the warranty extension is the appropriate measure. If you have arguments about why it is justified to recall all the CPUs that may be perfectly good, when that is guaranteed to generate expenses for the customers (at least by the computers that would be unusable for weeks, for those not in USA), not only for Intel, let's hear them. The only argument would be that Intel lies and that there may be a design error. In the case of the Intel Atom server CPUs that became bricked a few years ago, there was indeed a design error in the mask layout for some pin-associated circuitry. All those Intel Atom CPUs were certain to have a much shorter lifetime than expected. That would have been indeed enough reason for a recall (but Intel has not recalled them). For now, there is no evidence that something similar happened with Alder Lake/Raptor Lake.