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Intel Recalls New Chipset-Based Motherboards
VD writes "Intel Corp., world's largest chip maker, has made a serious mistake, which led the chip giant to recall its recently launched 925 and 915 chipset based motherboards. Intel reported the problem to be with the ICH6 and requested that motherboard makers recall their motherboards from the channel. The chip maker has agreed to pay compensation to motherboard makers for the losses." There's also a Reuters story as well.
Well, Rueter's made it sound like no big deal, but I think its a bit of a confidence killer. Looks how issues with a small subset of a product seem to taint it for life: overheating/crushable AMDs, P4s need super-expensive RAM, GeFroceFXs require a leafblower, etc. Release bugs seem to follow computer parts in spirit well after the flaw is corrected.
"Because Science" is one step from "Because old book". Try "Because of my experiment testing my falsifiable assertion".
In general, a mistake by one competitor does not give me more trust in another. Less trust in the former, yes.
The customer is going to pay for Intel's mistake, in many ways. They will have to foot the bill for it, and they will be without computers for a while, unless they have their old systems. How many of you keep old systems lying around? I've got a backup system on hand, but it certainly hurts to have to use it!
Customers will think twice before being early adopters for Intel, and that is when prices go up.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
You buy new shit, consider yourself a beta tester. Waiting a few months to let others find these problems has always seemed smart to me, and I really don't feel like I lose anything.
Oh no... it's the future.
It's ironic in that if Intel was a software (only) company, this probably wouldn't make a headline. If they were a software company, the customer would probably end up paying for the fix. You have to wonder what it would be like if software was developed and tested with the same rigor as hardware. Instead, software is often pushed out the door, chock full of bugs, and it's the customer who ultimately pays the price. Of course I'm generalizing, I understand there's plenty of quality software out there, but much more poor quality software. The obvious explanation is that software is of lesser quality because it can be; it can be patched, and with great efficiency these days via auto updates, whereas hardware doesn't afford the same benefit.
We all know that Intel puts all their equipment through a strong Quality Assurance check. They run tests on computer equipment that others in manufacturing envy.
/. Intel have been in a dream position for the last 20 years to make shedloads of money. They have consistently produced high quality minor engineering miracles used by 100's of millions of people daily. You try design and build a CPU rather than spout mindless, unsubstantiated drivel.
The first line you wrote pretty much negates all the drivel that follows it. You obviously have absolutely no idea how a manufacturing process works.
Intel needs to restructure their company.
Yes because they have been such a consistently pathetic failure over the last 10- 15 years.
all innovation in the CPU industry is put on hold until the market demands updates in speeds
The market constantly demands increases in speed as enterprise applications become more sophisticated and complex.
before we find an accounting error trying to sustain a broken company
One of the dumbest comments I have ever seen on
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
What this demonstrates is soundness of strategy given that they find themselves in this pickle (of their own making) to start with. They've avoided the even bigger mistake of staying silent, and the redress they're offering to mobo manufacturers is likely to minimize the damage to their relationships with these parties.
- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then ???, then profit.
Do you want the head of
- The engineer who made the original mistake
- The document writer who may have caused it
- The manager who failed to do enough checking
- The QA people for missing it
and so it goes on.
Kudos to Intel for simply saying "We screwed up" and recalling products. They seem to have learned much from the old Pentium FPU errata handling.
CPU's don't make noise - fans do and Intel CPU's produce more heat then AMD's so you need a higher capacity cooler while using an Intel CPU. If your setup is noisy that's because the fans used on it are noisy and you can always replace them.