34 Design Flaws in 20 Days of Intel Core Duo

Pray_4_Mojo writes "Geek.com is reporting that Intel's errata (bug) documentation shows that the Intel Core Duo chip has 34 known issues found in the 20 days since the launch of the iMac Core Duo. (you can read the list) with only plans to fix one of them. While bugs in hardware is nothing new (the P4 has 64 known issues, at this time Intel does not plan to fix a single one) this marks one of the first times that Intel released a processor with known bugs, and some of the bugs are of higher severity than in the past. Also alarming is the rate the flaws have been found, at one and half per day since the launch of the iMac Core Duo."

Comments

Re:Should've gone with AMD

[Janek Kozicki]

You do realize that there is an 85 page PDF of errors in the AMD64, right?

you forgot the link to that. (I shamelessly copied it from AC's post, why he posted it with score:0 is mystery to me - no one would notice it. He indicated that #113 worth looking at).

Hardware bugs are evil

[VincenzoRomano]

While software bugs have (almost) always a solution, for the hardware ones sometimes the solution is so far (and hard) to make the hardware itself unreliable when not useless.
I'd suggest Intel to be made liable for those bugs, provided that after these news it will be able to sell those chips!
Intel should reclaim the chips e substitute them with fixed ones. As it happens for cars.
And it would be nice to see the bug lists for AMD and PPC chips as well!