Tuesday, February 8, 2011

After cessation of sales: Intel margins chip delivers again

The customers can not wait. Probably why Intel wants to deliver some chips but now that the company has only a week ago as a designated potentially error-prone. PC makers can use the block but only under certain conditions. Santa Clara - Just a week has taken the sales stop. Now Intel announces to a particular type of potentially problematic microchips but want to serve again.

The mishap of a chip of the so-Series 6-chip set that supports the brand new Sandy Bridge processors had the PC industry vigorously whirled, attended by providers and buyers of uncertainty. A repaired, perfect chipset for the new generation of processors will now be delivered in mid-February.

The production, adjusted for the error model is already under way, Intel's shares in a blog posting. This will be the chip can now be delivered two weeks earlier than originally planned at the computer manufacturer, it is the headquarters of the world's largest chip manufacturer in Santa Clara.

Until then, and this will confuse some computer buyers, Intel will ease the pressure on PC manufacturers to self-imposed ban on the sale already made, faulty chipsets. For large manufacturers like HP and Dell are still a lot of tapes, because with them many new PC and notebook models on Intel's Sandy Bridge CPU based on the sale and without the put-Series 6-auxiliary chips can not be produced.

The chips would be problematic now, but built only in those systems where the error does not occur, Intel promised. The computer manufacturer would have to agree to comply with this requirement strictly. To what extent can it be ensured that not occur in certain PC configurations the asserted chip-errors, not the company stated.

Intel had acknowledged the possible malfunction in the chip in question a week ago and immediately stopped the production and delivery. The faulty component controls, among other things, hard drives and DVD drives, and can lead to negative effects. In addition to the production stop Intel also had a recall for previously supplied chips started and announced to withdraw in cooperation with the PC makers computer or exchange that have been already delivered to the margins chip.

Some companies have already launched appropriate exchange programs. Intel expects costs of up to one billion dollars by the exchange program and lost sales.

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