Intel’s Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake CPUs won’t have the instability issues affecting 13th and 14th Gen processors

We’ve written extensively about the stability issues affecting Intel’s 13th and 14th Gen processors. Both of our Jacobs have covered it thoroughly, with Jacob Fox thoroughly explaining the saga, while Jacob Ridley ran through a suite of benchmarks comparing pre and post-fix BIOSes, which thankfully revealed no noticeable performance penalty.

The issue hasn’t entirely gone away though. Intel’s investigation is ongoing, and it has promised another update by the end of September. But there’s some good news. Intel says “that its next generation of processors, codenamed Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake, are not affected by the Vmin Shift Instability issue”.