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Intel's Expensive Disco Ball

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the dance-to-it-baby dept.

Re-Pawn writes "From the NY Times: The Disco Ball of Failed Hopes and Other Tales From Inside Intel (Registration Required.) Seems like Intel is losing market share to other chip makers - this article highlights a few problems that Intel has had including one very expensive disco ball made from a failed attempt to produce projection televisions."

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  1. all your chips by Shinaku · · Score: 5, Funny

    are no longer belong to them!

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  2. now I get it. by tloh · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...including one very expensive disco ball made from a failed attempt to produce projection televisions.

    So THAT was the inspiration for those commercials with dancers in clean suits!

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  3. Intel ZIG intiative by stealth.c · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps now would be a good time for Intel to launch its enigmatic ZIG program. Nobody's quite sure what it is but rumor has it that the new initiative could result in great justice.

    1. Re:Intel ZIG intiative by s4m7 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Perhaps now would be a good time for Intel to launch its enigmatic ZIG program.

      Invariably prompting AMD to release it's CATS system ahead of schedule. Make your time.

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  4. Intel simulation model way off by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The engineer described sitting in meetings where the company's simulation models showed that 95 percent of the chips from each test wafer would be usable, while the actual yields were closer to 4 percent.

    Unfortunately, the simulations were running on Intel processors and were hit with rampant floating-point errors. They should have gone with AMD like the engineers wanted.

  5. Re:Article text by itwerx · · Score: 4, Funny

    So where the hell is a pic of the damn ball already?!?
    Geez... :)

  6. Help me out here... by synth7 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Could someone post the article text, or perhaps another news source with this article, or perhaps post an alternative link that bypasses the NYT registration? I mean, I looked... I really did, but I just couldn't find a way to view that article in all these replies.

    Seriously.

  7. Re:Article text by PapayaSF · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's one of the laws of web publishing: If an article mentions an interesting object, chances are there won't be a picture of it in the article.

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  8. Re:Article text by Deliveranc3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    You want a damn disco ball? Then you go spend a billion dollars on research.

    Damn hippies always want something for nothing.

  9. Theme Song by FrankDrebin · · Score: 4, Funny

    You can tell by the way I fill your box
    I'm an Intel man, no time for Macs
    Fan so loud and chip so warm
    Transistor count from Mr. Moore
    But it's all right, it's ok
    Just behind your CD tray
    My mission, you understand
    Is pusher for the Redmond man

    Whether I'm a Xeon or a first-gen peon
    I'm x-eighty-six, x-eighty-six
    Maybe I'm a-F00Fin' or power-supply poofin'
    I'm x-eighty-six, x-eighty-six
    Ah ah ah ah x-eighty-six, x-eighty-six
    Ah ah ah ah x-eighty-six!

    Well now, cache gets low and temp gets high
    And for overclockers, I really fry
    Got the gold flashing on my pads
    And an F_DIV bug etched in my sand
    But it's all right, it's ok
    I also heard AMD is gay
    And that VIA, and Transmeta
    Can kiss my royal FPU

    Whether I'm Centrino, you can bet that we know
    I'm x-eighty-six, x-eighty-six
    Ain't got sixty-four-bit, but still think I'm hot shit
    I'm x-eighty-six, x-eighty-six
    Ah ah ah ah x-eighty-six, x-eighty-six
    Ah ah ah ah x-eighty-six!

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