It could be an expensive repair
Yup. Cheaper by far to replace the whole motherboard in one go. Unless your SSD is also soldered on. In which case it's a tad more complex.
And would you trust your data to a hardware replacement company? Let alone having a problem with a Bitlocker or APFS-encrypted drive where the local key is in the TPM locker.
I forsee that it could get very expensive for Intel, very, very quickly.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
