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Intel says its Raptor Lake crashing chip nightmare is over

Intel’s Core i9-14900K sitting on a blue Intel box
Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge

Intel may have one less worry on its very full plate: it believes it has now fully addressed its desktop CPU instability woes with 13th and 14th Gen “Raptor Lake” chips.

While the company says there’s still no fix for processors that are already damaged, it confirms to me that the “Vmin Shift Instability” is the root cause of the unusual instability and crashes that these desktop CPUs have been demonstrating for many months.

And, Intel says, the four sets of mitigations it’s now shipped are the fix for the problem.

“Yes, we’re confirming this is the cause and that it is fixed,” Intel spokesperson Thomas Hannaford tells The Verge.

That’s good! It also wasn’t clear until now. As of August 30th, Intel was still telling us that “Vmin…

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