Sandy Bridge Chipset Shipments Halted Due To Bug

J. Dzhugashvili writes "Early adopters of Intel's new Sandy Bridge processors, beware. Intel has discovered a flaw in the 6-series chipsets that accompany the new processors. The flaw causes Serial ATA performance to 'degrade over time' in 'some cases.' Although Intel claims 'relatively few' customers are affected, it has stopped shipments of these chipsets and started making a revised version of the silicon, which won't be ready until late February. Intel expects to lose $300 million in revenue because of the problem, and it's bracing for repair and replacement costs of $700 million."

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Re:First Stalin, now this. You Georgians, I swear.

[Chemicles]

Or, they could be actual quotes from the company's actual press release.

Re:Intel caught this one first?

[Ecuador]

According to Anand's coverage, Intel said that they started getting customer complaints after they had shipped about 100k units, and their engineers managed to duplicate the problem early last week, the cause of which they figured out in a couple of days.

Source : http://www.anandtech.com/show/4142/intel-discovers-bug-in-6series-chipset-begins-recall

Re:Why Sandy Bridge ?

[PitaBred]

Yes. Sandy Bridge i7-2600K CPUs are approaching the speeds of the i7-980X, while costing 1/3rd as much. You can build an insanely fast machine for under $1000 with Sandy Bridge, including graphics card.