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First generation anything is not as good as it's going to be.

Up until recently every CPU generation was on a brand new node - there was no second gen on the same process. We never had reliability issues with CPUs before.

The Intel Atom C2000 product family had a terrible problem which would brick systems, see for example https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-cpu-failure-atom-pro... or https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/06/cisco_intel_decline...

There was also a weak transistor on some Sandy Bridge chips in the SATA controller. But these failures are really quite rare.

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