If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with elevated voltage, you may be entitled to compensation
A law firm is inviting owners of 13th and 14th Gen Intel Raptor Lake CPUs to join in on an upcoming class action lawsuit.it is"investigating a potential class action lawsuit" over alleged defects in Intel's latest Raptor Lake desktop CPUs. At this stage, the firm seems to only be collecting reports from owners of 13th and 14th Gen chips.
The CPU titan somewhat undersells what excessive voltage does to a chip. While more voltage can enable more stable operation at higher clock speeds, at a certain point more voltage can actually cause silicon to degrade. The consequences of voltage degradation range from crashing at frequencies that were previously unproblematic to chip death; if you've ever heard about how dangerous overclocking can be, this is why.
As for why Raptor Lake has this issue at all, it might have something to do with the high out-of-the-box clock speeds that Intel sets for its desktop CPUs. Theon the Core i9-14900K is much higher than the brief 5.7 GHz that AMD's Ryzen 9 7950X hits only every now and then. The Core i9-14900KS can even do 6.2 GHz on two cores.
While it was initially thought that only the higher-end unlocked or K models in the 13th and 14th Gen product stacks could fail,that any model in the two ranges with a Thermal Design Power of 65 watts or more might have the underlying problem. That list includes almost every single Raptor Lake CPU on the desktop, so we can assume there are more than enough affected users for a class action lawsuit to go forward.
If this did go to court and the result went against Intel, though, damages might not amount much. AMD had to cough up $12 million dollars over whether its Bulldozer CPUs actually had as many cores as advertised, but the payout for each individual. Not many people even owned a Bulldozer processor in the first place; Raptor Lake has likely sold far more by now.
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