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."

Comments

are they overclocking the chips?

[golan]

Looks like they are overclocking their own chips. Maybe they should sell them with a bigger fan on them... ;-)

Re:Deja Vu

[Bombcar]

Apparently it has to be 'a specific set of operations in a specific sequence with specific data.

The operation:

mov eeax, VALUE

The sequence:

1. mov eeax, VALUE

The specific data:

VALUE > 2^32+1

Re:Ironic?

[Bert64]

Itanium on the other hand, is on a LOT LESS systems than AMD chips.