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.

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Foolish AMD quote

[bender647]

Sources close to Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) stated that AMD will most likely benefit from this recall as it will gain trust from more consumers.

In general, a mistake by one competitor does not give me more trust in another. Less trust in the former, yes.

Re:Foolish AMD quote

[shird]

Well to be honest I put more trust in Intel after this incident. Afterall, they were quick to admit their mistake, and are prepared to compensate the manufacturers for any loss.

Id have a lot less trust if they tried to deny it for ages, until theyre eventually forced to admit the mistake and then not want to compensate people for their losses.

Of course, with the problem being that the motherboards prevent booting, I suspect its not something they could hide for long - so they really didnt have much choice.

Its clear that...

[ankit]

This time A times B times C equaled more than the cost of a recall.

Re:Ouch!

[JAFSlashdotter]

But a quick, well handled recall is 1000% better than deny, deny, deny, deny... oh? oh yeah! we do have a problem!

Tom's Hardware link

[Anonymous Coward]

A little more info here:Intel Grantsdale Recall

NOT a big deal

[Egekrusher2K]

For one thing, this news is 2 days old now. Thanks for staying current. :rolleyes: For another, this is not a design flaw, it was a manufacturing flaw- a thin film substrate wasn't completely removed from the chipset before the chips were sent out to the mobo manufacturers, and they believe that the "recall" will only affect, at most, 1000 motherboards. Lastly, there are no video cards available on the market that can be used on these motherboards, as they can use ONLY PCI Express video cards, not AGP. Therefore, virtually noone can even use the boards yet. Early adopters? I doubt if there are any yet. Oh yeah, one last thing- I'd like to know what manufacturer doesn't use chipset based motherboards???? The poster of this article sounds like he was just trying to raise a ruckus, without even being informed about the issue.

Re:Intentions?

[Timesprout]

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.

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 /. 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.

Re:ICH6?

[builderbob_nz]

ICH6 = Intel I/o Controller Hub 6. Basically it is the south bridge for Intel's new chipset.