For the past few months, a curious number of AMD's Ryzen 9000 CPUs with 3D V-Cache have been failing to boot. Sometimes, the CPU has even exhibited burn marks on the underside and in the CPU socket.

What just happened? AMD has responded to reports of 108 Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs unexpectedly dying in users' machines, with most of the incidents happening on Asrock motherboards. Team Red blames ...