The company has completed a 'root cause diagnosis,' which isolated the bug to a vulnerable clock tree circuit in Intel's architecture.

Over seven months since the first reports of CPU instability, Intel shares the root cause and offers a fix.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox

Root cause identified, but it's taken the better part of a year After what has felt like an eternity, Intel reckons it has finally identified why its 13th and 14th Gen Core series desktop processors have been so unstable.

Intel has determined four scenarios that could cause voltage instability in its Core 13th and 14th gen processors. It has released another microcode patch to fix it.

The Raptor Lake overvolting saga has been a wild and painful one for owners of 13th gen and 14th gen Intel CPUs. Now, Intel has put out a microcode update that promises to finally fix it, although we remain to see if it will.