are there any fixed lifespan for intel processors

[jibinjcb7]

I heard that intel 6th gen onwards there is a fixed lifespan for them built in their chipset , is it true or uttter blunter

 

[justin.m.beauvais]

No. If Intel were to build in kill switches to their hardware they would violate laws in multiple countries. Someone was spewing some fanboy nonsense.

 

[Karadjgne]

Serious BS. Never has been any sort of lifespan switch. The only thing that sets the usable lifespan of a cpu is software. I have a pentium II 350MHz that still works just fine, but figure that it's far too slow to handle anything newer than what was available for Windows 98SE.

 

[zyh1987]

don't think that's the case, most of my cpus runs fine for more than 10 years, however, it is very difficult to get matching rams/motherboards/cpu replacement if your system is broken. also performance and power consumption are better new chips. from the product life cycle point of view, it's about 3-5 years after launch (longer for xeon line)

 

[mdd1963]

'fixed life' -- nonsense.....!

Some of their older SSDs, however, a different story......they will indeed simply stop working after 'x' amount of writes...

 

[USAFRet]

I heard that intel 6th gen onwards there is a fixed lifespan for them built in their chipset , is it true or uttter blunter

Whoever said that...never listen to that person again. For anything.

 

[zyh1987]

You can look at the mtbf which should give you a good idea, but ymmv. I have no clue how they come up with that number, but yea. However, there was some discussion back in the days around 2010, regarding a kill switch using 3G network from anti theft department where IT staff can kill the lost / stolen device.