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Intel Recalls New Chipset-Based Motherboards

Posted by Hemos on from the bad-times-for-the-bottom-line dept.

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.

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  1. Intel rushed.... by Yenhsrav_Keviv · · Score: 4, Interesting

    it seems like everytime AMD puts pressure on Intel, Intel rushes and screws up in some way, like this. The P3 1.13ghz comes to mind.

  2. We should be more surprised by Timesprout · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That this is not a more frequent occurence. Any company that pushes complex technology the way Intel does will always run the risk of this happening. Its no big deal, they are going to fix it and make reparation. From Intels point of view the most damaging part is the marketing boost AMD get from this.

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  3. Re:Foolish AMD quote by luna69 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Granted, but considering AMD's excellent new socket 939-based CPUs, I think that they will see a strong synergistic effect here, with some public doubt about Intel steering the fence-sitters toward Athlon 64 and 64 FX solutions.

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  4. Re:Costs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    According this this AP article, the majority of the chips are still in the hands of manufacturers, so the consumer impact is minimal.

  5. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  6. Re:NOT a big deal by ForceOfWill · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Oh yeah, one last thing- I'd like to know what manufacturer doesn't use chipset based motherboards????

    It was probably meant to be parsed "((new chipset)-based) motherboards", not "new (chipset-based) motherboards". English needs explicit scoping ;-)
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  7. Re:Ouch! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What's interesting is that this comes on the heels of what could've been a PR mess for AMD. The Opteron errata are unlikely to be hit by compiler-generated code, and AMD's taken the appropriate countermeasures (the mentioned BIOS patching, and alerting the world so compiler vendors and so on can test for the cases), but I was expecting Intel backers to try to play it up on par with the FDIV bug. (It isn't, if you're too lazy to read the link.)

    Instead, not only do we get this Intel oops (which actually isn't a bad one, if it only entails eating CMOS batteries quick... my old Nx586 system -- remember NexGen? -- used to go through one every few months before I gave up and built an external AA pack for it)... but we get this Intel oops distracting the attention from more serious issues in the next Pentium 4. Bugs that, when you think about it, are a bit more worrisome for not being easily fixed in software.

    Sorry, Intel, looks like this round goes well in favor of AMD.