More on the Intel PIII recall

[ixl]

There's an article on the PIII situation at cnn.com. Apparently IBM actually shipped some systems with these CPUs, and are now working around the problem. Intel says this speed will be back "in a couple of months". To me, that means "when we actually have our process ramped far enough to be able to make a chip of this speed, maybe".
Meanwhile, Intel's PR department is in overdrive. I love this:
In the past couple of weeks, Intel intensified its testing and determined the temperature problem was related to certain circuits on the chip and not the manufacturing process.
Oh please. What, this particular speed has different circuits than the others in the PIII line?
You can read the entire article here (http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/08/30/p3.recall.idg/index.html).

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[This message has been edited by ixl (edited 09-04-2000).]

[Matt]

I have not heard about this one. What is the set clock speed of the processors on recall? Besides, I thought that Intel boasted the ability to create processors that would run faster and cooler anyway with the development of the "coppermine" chip (i think), due to the switch from the use of aluminum in the processor.

[Samantha]

Matt, you need to get out more. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/wink.gif It's the 1.13GHz

Of most concern is that early testing of the CPU uncovered its problems. Tom's Hardware Guide reported stablity and reliability as early as July 31. (See story (http://www6.tomshardware.com/column/00q3/000903/index.html).) I read somewhere that I can't find now that other testers reported the problems to Intel. Intel appears to have ignored these warnings, simply for the bragging rights to having the fastest chip. I wonder what Andy Grove is thinking about the affair.


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[StellarGnome]

Intel rushed this chip out without proper real world testing to say to the computer industry look I can piss farther than AMD. Unfortunately Intel can't.