Intel rolls out one other repair for its CPU voltage points

Intel says it has decided 4 eventualities that would result in voltage stability points in its Core thirteenth and 14th-gen processors, and it has released another new update to deal with the difficulty. Its prospects have been having points with these processors since 2022, nevertheless it was solely in July this yr that the corporate discovered that their instability issues had been caused by elevated operating voltage. The corporate defined again then that microcode algorithms have been sending incorrect voltage requests to its processors. Microcodes, or machine codes, are units of hardware-level directions. Intel promised in the identical announcement to launch microcode patches to deal with the “root reason for publicity to elevated voltages.”

In its new publish on its neighborhood web page, Intel enumerated the 4 eventualities that would trigger voltage instability, beginning with the motherboard’s energy supply settings exceeding its energy steerage. One other situation is {that a} microcode algorithm had been permitting its processors to function at increased efficiency states even at excessive temperatures. The corporate already launched a microcode patch for this again in June. The third situation entails one other microcode algorithm requesting excessive voltages at a frequency and length which might set off the difficulty. Intel had additionally launched a patch for this in August.

The most recent microcode patch it has launched, codenamed 0x12B, addresses the fourth situation. Apparently, the processors may make elevated core voltage requests throughout mild exercise or whereas the pc is idle. Intel has distributed this patch to motherboard producers, because it needs to be loaded as a BIOS replace. The corporate is already working with its companions, nevertheless it may nonetheless take a number of weeks for the producers to roll out the repair to its merchandise.

The voltage stability points plaguing Intel’s Core thirteenth and 14th-gen processors have been inflicting computer systems to crash and fail fully. And primarily based on earlier studies, putting in the patches Intel has launched won’t repair PCs which have already began exhibiting signs of the issue. Shortly after saying that it had decided why its processors had been failing, Intel extended their warranties by two years in order that prospects can get theirs changed. That was very a lot welcome, seeing as even PCs that work nicely at first may begin exhibiting points and provides out in the long run.