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Intel Reveals Itanium 2 Glitch
NeoChichiri writes "News.com is running on an article about glitches in Intel's Itanium 2 chips. Even though it doesn't affect all chips, they have still stopped shipments of the new 450 Servers until the problem is resolved. Apparently it has to be 'a specific set of operations in a specific sequence with specific data.' Intel is saying that affects the 900MHz and 1 GHz Itanium 2 chips and that it will not affect the upcoming 1.5 GHz Itanium 2 6M chips." Until the next iteration of chip arrives though, Oliver Wendell Jones writes, "they recommend working around the problem by underclocking the processor to run at 800 MHz instead of its default 900 MHz or 1 GHz."
Well done intel ;-)
Underclocking too...
The Itanic 2 appears to be going down like the first...
*in Homer Simpsons voice* 'mmmmmm.....Itanium 2 chops.......glazhzhzhz'
Bye-bye fans and thermal paste, hello heaters and insulation!
Perhaps they should put some silver stuff over the serial number. Welcome to the Intel Itanium scratchcard lotto, those with bad chips win a new one :)
What, this is going to affect all 6 people that own this chip?
can't sleep slashdot will eat me
whenever they come out with a new design, they tend to have all sorts of f00fy little problems with it.
I have about 6 years experience in Quality Assurance, with emphasis on electronics, manufacturing processes and attention to detail.
You know...if you're looking for anyone that is.
How long does it take an Itanium to count to 10?
I don't know but will let you know when it gets there
OMG I don't believe I just wrote that
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Dear mr. Glasswire. You have now spoiled a perfectly fine joke. Congratulations.
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
Anybody else had flashbacks of the Pentium FDIV bug and this excelent post?
My other OS is the MCP!
Your geek membership has been revoked. Hand in your pocket protector at the door. OutOutOut!
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Mark Twain
"Open the Itanium register sets, HAL."
...."
"I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that
-kgj
Naah...
Itaniums are so powerful, all those companies run off just six chips.
Oh... apparently this bug means the bottom 4 companies have to wait until Itanium 3 for 64-bit computing, sorry guys.
The problem is a sequence of 1s and 0s. Avoid those two numbers, and you'll be fine.
When all you have is an axe, everything looks like a grindstone.
Finally, The electrical engineers are to blame. I knew my code was correct!
"If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer
"Until we're sure the issues are 100 percent resolved, we're going to keep holding back shipments with the 450," IBM spokeswoman Lisa Lanspery said. "We have a policy of zero tolerance for undetected data corruption" at a customer site, she said.
:-)
so detected data corruption is just fine, then...?
Maybe this is not a bug, maybe this is just Intel's new anti-overclocking technology!
Ok, I guess the joke is now no longer:
...>>NO CARRIER
Intel Inside: Get 99.98765374% from your PC!
Instead, it's now:
Intel Inside: Get 99.98765374% from your
If I knew the wedgies I gave you back in 6th grade would have resulted in this . . . I might have taken a moments pause.
No, all 6.666666666666666666666 people.
Please help metamoderate.
Because I truly believe that 1 * 1 == 2.
Where quality is job 1.99904274017.
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
Luckily, all of the Itanium 2 owners have been contacted, and both of them had not yet experienced data corruption.