Intel definitively claims its laptop chips aren’t crashing because of that voltage thing
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It’s been a burning question for months — are Intel’s laptop chips susceptible to the same permanent damage that can potentially lay 24 different flagship desktop chips low?
Today, Intel has finally confirmed: its 13th and 14th Gen laptop chips do not have an instability issue. The company claims they are not affected by the too-high voltage issue, which it’s now calling “Vmin Shift Instability.”
And while Intel has maintained that Vmin Shift Instability is not necessarily the root cause or only cause of the crashes — it’s still investigating — Intel spokesperson Thomas Hannaford now tells The Verge that laptop chips basically aren’t affected at all. “Confirming 13/14th gen mobile isn’t impacted by the instability issue broadly…