If it was known that the faster CPUs were a problem, and a lot of people trusted that and refused to build them, then that would be a lot less scary than the idea that there is something (nameless) that happens to people who try to sell a faster CPU.
This could be made known only to those people who had the ability and training to make CPU improvements without telling the general population and risking a panic. Not a high chance of panic, but a possible one with very little possible benefit.
This could be made known only to those people who had the ability and training to make CPU improvements without telling the general population and risking a panic. Not a high chance of panic, but a possible one with very little possible benefit.
If I was certain that that was the case, then the disquieting part of the CPU throttling would be quite dramatically reduced.