Now, that is all true.
The kickback may be against tech stocks and particularly those experiencing public issues right now. So the backlash correlation might not have anything to do with causality but via their tech stock relationship.
I think that's possible.
It is just that the whole Raptor Lake instability issue has been reported for months but Intel stock hasn't gone really anywhere in the past few months. If anything INTC is actually up 8% the past month even after the big decline on Friday, all while the negative news around RPL instability has gained more coverage.
In the past 5 days INTC declined 4.98% and the tech sector ETF XLK declined 5.98%. So Intel actually declined less than the entire tech sector. It is a stretch to really tie any of that to RPL issues. All I can see is that Intel declined with the rest of the sector but actually fared a tad better than most this week.
I deeply distrust these clickbait articles from investment sites because they try so hard to write some article to find some kind of signal in what may just be noise, they can often come up with things that are a real stretch or total nonsense. It has gotten even worse recently because so much of this stuff is autogenerated garbage from LLMs now. Sometime earlier this year I saw an article trying to explain all the reasons why a particular stock was down 50%. In reality the stock simply had a 2:1 split, but the LLM generated article was too dumb to recognize that.
Anyway, I will not rant about investment site clickbait any further. Back to the topic.