Intel credit rating drops to two steps above junk status amid worsening struggles

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Problem still is that your experience is just ultra small fraction of all systems used worldwide. Mass produced stuff always have some bad units. And when someone receives one, it's immediately assumed whole model is trash, manufacturer is trash, I will never buy that manufacturer product again etc. You know. Problem is that there are still probably millions or even more same models in use that work just fine.

On other hand, there are cases where certain product have well known design flaw that make most units simply unreliable or other way faulty .But there are always those who happen to have "lucky" unit that works just fine.

That's problem with all personal experiences. Sample size is usually way too small to reflect situation well enough.

Of course AMD has had many problems but usually those problems are claimed to be much worse than they actually are. Memory "compatibility" is another issue. Many consumers tend to only buy memory that is on QVL list. And that is failure. When Kingston memory and Nvidia chipsets had well known problems, motherboard makers flooded QVL list with Kingston memory. Basically buying something that is NOT on QVL list was better choice. And because QVL list said Kingston memory should work, AMD platform sucks. That is good example of user error. Personally I have never had any memory problems and Never have bought any memory based on QVL lists.

Some "truths" tend to live for long time. Like that famous "Windows 10 is last Windows version" -quot that was completely false. Microsoft never said that but it became some sort of truth. Sae with Intel is more stable "truth", that is backed with very little evidence.

Right. Just to add, for "white goods," and PCs a failure rate of 1% is acceptable by market standards.
More than that and it's assumed there is a problem. That 1% figure was as of 7 or so years ago.
I doubt it's changed.

Obviously 1% is rather high if you consider that the volumes of, say a particular popular GPU like AMDs latest have sold - a lot. If failure rate was 1% there would be plenty of posts claiming the whole product line is defective.

Of course it's not. In mass production there is always some failure rate, usually well below 1%. AMD, NV know that if 1% of their GPUs were defective enthusiasts, like people here would post about it and the problem would seem bigger than it is.

That's not to say there aren't any problems. (Melting cables, poor power draw sharing over sockets etc.)

Be interesting to know the real failure rate of any product, but it wouldn't really mean much if it was under 1%.

EDIT: That 1% figure is valid until standard warranty expires.