Why does anyone actually believe anything Trump says, including his tariff threats. Haven't we've seen him back down enough times to learn there's nothing behind the threat except bluster and a photo op?
Rather suspicious they suddenly have a firmware fix that improves performance for a newly-released CPU that was poorly received by the market. I guess they figured out they couldn't hold off on these gains until Zen 6 so decided to unlock them on Zen 5.
Once everyone has his free 100GB he plans to flip a switch that causes everyone to murder each other, except for a few select oligarchs he's hiding in an underground cave that he's personally chosen to continue mankind into the future.
They should attach one of their ridiculous cameras to their forehead and record themselves gathering their shit and being escorted off the premises. They can post it on YouTube as "fired, to the extreme!"
Software "flaw" my ass. I'm sure the logic requesting extra voltage had nothing to do with Intel trying to eek out every inch of performance in the highly competitive market against AMD. They probably hoped running hot wouldn't destroy the chips, at least in the short half life modern CPU's have in an upgrade-crazed market. Now that the chips are dying let's call that reach for performance a software "flaw".
Let's see what the performance looks like after they fix the glitch.
I have to think they're going to face billions in lawsuits over hits, no matter what their agreement says about being held liable for software defects.