No. Korean DIY sales are a drop in the ocean. They don't have to be representative of wide world sales. A producing selling well of badly in one tiny part of the world says absolutely nothing about the world wide sales.
Puget data on the other hand are representative of the real world. There is no reason why failure rates between puget and an off the shelf cpu will be different. They are the exact same cpus.
Intels layoff and employee frustration? Lol. I don't really care, they could lay off every single person, if the products are good I'll buy them.
You are asking me why would I buy an Intel cpu. So obviously I'm talking about me. The chances of having a faulty cpu are tiny in the first place so in the offchance, you have warranty. 3 years for amd and 5 for Intel.
10 to 15% after 2 years is horrible. 12th to 13th was over 40% in a single year.
1) Korean DIY is a big indicator for those who will buy high end stuffs reacts to the recent events, so do all local DIY and local small stores sales, there is no reason to believe consumers will not think similar
Puget system's data have big reasons to believe the out of box failure rates are different:
a) they use lower than intel extreme profile settings, which is now the "fixed" intel spec, by doing so, it could delay or minimize the issue
b) for their systems much fewer units of AMD are sold, as such, even smaller random number of failure, say, 1 CPU per week, for both sides, they could result in different failure %
2) Intel layoff and employee frustration is a big factor, modern tech stuffs need a lot of talented engineers to do the deisgn, QC and safeguard, doing the micro coding and stress testing, having a ton of those ppl swarped to take up other's half baked job, and having a lot of insecurity and frustration among the teams a few months prior to that to make something great without a lot of small issues or something big like blowing itself up within months is dellusional, they can again make something benchmarking great just like RPL and get it into big negative press 1 year down the line
3) Having a faulty CPU at stock is low in chance, but for RPL, having something using their stock setting could eventually blow it up within a few years isn't that low, most of us here have friends encountering such issues already, especially those who game with UE5, with such self destructing stuffs, replacement means you will replace again 2 years later, trouble in the RMA process is trouble. Of course, you have your freedom of choice, but then don't mock others saying they don't recommend intel in the current situation.
4) yea, RPL is 30% in MT and 12% in ST, and drinking a lot more power, so if using same core count, it isn't 30-40%, plus by doing so they blow themselves up within months for the higher end parts since the 13900k complains appears not far from their release till now, so basically they OC themselves to oblivion to get the 30-40%, and THAT is precisely the issue, 10-15% faster is plenty in a Gen on Gen basis, nobody ask one to replace the 7950x with the 9950x.