While I am saddened by the loss of him, can I point out that its the second of the month, and using the term “he passed away earlier this month” just means the 1st. I am not sure if this was to pad out the word count or some kind of AI rewrite, I mean the pointing out that he worked for EA Sega and Star Citizen like 6 times points to the later.
If you watch the video from level1techs and the follow up from gamersnexus, you can hear them talk about how this is not something microcode can fix, its not only a power issue, its a design issue. With all of the out of video mem and compression bugs I would look into the memory controller. This also seems to be a smaller fix into itself, they show that some were able to get their machines up and running again once they shot the memory down to the lowest clock (4800 MT I think it was) that the DDR5 could do, and this seems to still be a bandaid and the systems will just outright die soon after, but you might be able to get in your order for RMA before it does.
that was my dry attempt at saying what a failure that team was when they said that, and you know it had to be someone high up that approved it.