Sky-Knight
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We’ve seen multiple instances of the VMIN failures this year, and it’s now well established across both Intel and AMD platforms. The flaw affects systems newer than Intel’s 12th Gen that is, anything manufactured from 2022 onward.
These newer platforms introduced virtualization and firmware enhancements that, while designed to improve performance and security, have inadvertently opened up new vectors for failure.
AMD’s AGESA firmware updates and Intel’s ME/UEFI patches are being pushed aggressively by OEMs, often with rollback disabled highlighting the severity of the issues we're seeing.
The moral of the story is simple: get your EFI updated, or replace the machine on failure. Warranties are extending, but not being serviced in a terribly timely manner. The situation is complex because the mainboard is at fault, but the CPU is what fails.
This is one of those messes that if managed correctly is invisible to our customers, but if not managed correctly will drive our customers to our competition!
These newer platforms introduced virtualization and firmware enhancements that, while designed to improve performance and security, have inadvertently opened up new vectors for failure.
AMD’s AGESA firmware updates and Intel’s ME/UEFI patches are being pushed aggressively by OEMs, often with rollback disabled highlighting the severity of the issues we're seeing.
The moral of the story is simple: get your EFI updated, or replace the machine on failure. Warranties are extending, but not being serviced in a terribly timely manner. The situation is complex because the mainboard is at fault, but the CPU is what fails.
This is one of those messes that if managed correctly is invisible to our customers, but if not managed correctly will drive our customers to our competition!
