[asksomeoneelse]

I would guess Intel is counting on the fact that most people are not knowledgeable enough to pinpoint a defective CPU being the issue when the computer starts crashing.

Heck, even as a SWE building my own computers for almost 20 years, I still have no idea how to properly diagnose a hardware issue when it arises. Beyond checking for explicit errors in journals/logs, and the usual memtest/BIOS update/reinstall the OS from scratch, I resort to replacing each component one by one until the issue disappears. But it's time consuming, and sometimes quite costly. I suspect most people simply replace the entire thing if it's not a prebuilt PC still under warranty.