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*While streaming Netflix at 1080p with an FHD+ screen at just 150 nits of brightness.

Still, that’s eight hours more than its last-gen laptop in the same test, even with the same battery size and display. The only thing on the spec sheet that’s changed is the processor — to Intel Lunar Lake.

While Intel battles to deal with crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs, the chip giant is preparing its Arrow Lake generation of CPUs. Benchlife reports that the Intel Core Ultra 200 lineup will launch on October 10th, and feature 14 chips in total. Videocardz also has a roundup of the cores and boost speeds Intel is expected to target for its next-gen CPUs.

Acer to The Verge, today:

We are offering a two-year extended warranty for affected 13th and 14th Gen Intel Core desktop processors causing instability issues. While we are working closely with Intel to address the situation through microcode updates, customers experiencing such issues should contact their nearest Acer service center.

I think that’s just about everyone. Now we see if everyone makes exchanges difficult... or easy.

Intel recently informed us that the impacted 13th and 14th generation processors facing instability issues will have an extended warranty. Dell will support Intel’s extended warranty terms for a total of five-years on these processors.

Pretty much every brand is on board now, save Lenovo and Acer:

The company’s answer was brief:

MSI will cover 2 year extended warranty on all MSI Desktop. 

We asked all its competitors the same question about Intel’s crashing chips. Here are the answers:

The announcement follows Intel’s rough Q2 2024 earnings and its decision to make massive job cuts.

The company gave a statement about the delay to PCMag:

Given our financial results and outlook for the second half of 2024, which is tougher than previously expected, we are having to make some tough decisions as we continue to align our cost structure and look to assess how we rebuild a sustainable engine of process technology leadership.

Asus is the first OEM to release BIOS updates for its range of Z790 motherboards. The latest beta BIOS includes Intel’s new microcode fix to address stability and crashing issues with its 13th and 14th Gen processors. This won’t fix chips that are already damaged, though. You’ll need to swap your CPU, with Intel or a PC maker, if it has degraded.

After introducing the Arc brand a few years ago, Intel announced in China that cars with the GPUs could arrive “as soon as 2025.”

While it hasn’t specified which cars, a demo showed it running AAA games and a “new generation cockpit user interface (UI) that transforms vehicles into immersive mobile hubs supporting seven high-definition screens rendering 3D graphics and six-in vehicle cameras and interactive features.”

The company says it was able to boot up and load operating systems on Intel 18A-based processors, including Panther Lake AI PC chips. 18A is part of Intel’s roadmap to regain its footing in the processor market.

The good news comes not a moment too soon, as the company recently confirmed that crashing 13th- and- 14th-gen processors are unfixable, then laid off 15,000 employees last week.

Intel added two years of additional warranty coverage for its 13th and 14th Gen Core processors last week, and now it’s clarifying this will also apply to processors sold without a box to OEMs or system integrators. If you’re having crashing issues you can contact Intel if you purchased a boxed CPU, or your OEM or system builder otherwise. Intel has also supplied a list of processors that will get the warranty extension, found below.

Puget Systems writes it’s indeed seeing higher failure rates with 13th and 14th Gen Intel Core processors — so it’ll extend warranty to three years for affected buyers. Normally, Puget only warranties parts for one year.

We don’t yet know if Intel is helping PC makers extend warranty. So far it’s only extended warranty on its own retail chips.

I love a scheduled social media post right in the middle of a major PC outage. IT admins certainly aren’t enjoying the CrowdStrike 2024 PC era.

IDC and Canalys disagree whether this is the second or third consecutive quarter of growth, but either way, the slump is definitively behind us — and we haven’t even seen the impact of this year’s Qualcomm, AMD and Intel chip launches yet.