[Sanddancer]

It's part of the errata for the chip. Go to:

http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/...

and search for AVR54

[Jaecen]

I understand that the chip has a flaw. The title claims non-Cisco products are being bricked. What other products have actually been impacted by this issue? The article doesn't give any data, just a list of vendors using the chip. Is there any proof other devices are impacted by this issue?

I'm not claiming that the chip isn't failing; I'm disappointed that the title makes a claim that the article doesn't deliver on.

[lysp]

Check the synology forums linked in the article.

Quite a few units have completely died without explanation. From the descriptions given by the users it does sound like dead cpu.