By Aaron Ricadela February 01, 2011
Hewlett-Packard Co. said that the availability of certain machines will be “impacted” by a chip- design flaw disclosed by Intel Corp. and that it will delay a product presentation scheduled for next week in San Francisco.
“We are postponing the business notebooks briefing on Feb. 10 as the availability of HP products will be impacted” by the flaw outlined by Intel, according to a statement sent by Edelman Public Relations Worldwide. Intel, the world’s largest maker of semiconductors, said yesterday it will incur $1 billion in missed sales and higher cost to fix the design flaw. The error also is affecting personal-computer makers including Samsung Electronics Co., which said it will offer refunds on some PCs, and NEC Corp., which said it may push back the release of four new models. The fault is in a support chip, or chipset, for Intel’s latest processor model called Sandy Bridge, unveiled this month in a bid to improve PC graphics and repel a challenge by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. HP, the world’s largest maker of PCs, sells many computers that use chips other than Sandy Bridge, said Marlene Somsak, a spokeswoman for Palo Alto, California based HP.
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Yet another Flawed Intel Chip design effecting the market hmmm why am I not surprised – simple cause Intel as big a company as they are makes the same mistake over and over when they try to push out a product too quickly in order to compete with a smaller yet powerful competitor. That alone speaks volume it's not how big a company is how how much money they have, if their engineers suck it will be reflected in their products. Maybe Intel should spend millions in product testing instead of loosing billions to fix their mess.
Comment by JTECH — February 2, 2011 @ 1:17 am