Intel chip bug hits production

[Rik]

The BBC reports that:

PC makers are halting sales of some machines because of problems with the latest Intel chips.

The problem centres on a chipset that helps a central processor communicate with other parts of a PC, including memory and hard drives.

About eight million of the faulty chipsets, called Cougar Point, have been distributed so far, said Intel.

That should help AMD out a bit.

[Simon]

Do they need help?

[pctech]

Apparently its to do with the SATA port connections degrading over time.

[Rik]

Do they need help?

They've lost market share to Intel in recent years, haven't they? That said, Aldi have a good looking AMD machine on Sunday:

http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/special_buys3_17502.htm

[esh]

It's a glitch sure, but sadly I think AMD are mostly being retired to the low-end competition. If you want a powerful enthusiast PC these days it's almost certainly Intel+NVIDIA. Core i7 costs an absolute boatload, but you mostly get what you pay for. In 2003 I paid £300 for the first AMD x2 dual core processor which utterly destroyed the Pentium 4 CPUs at the time. But things change.

[Glenn]

Is it potato blight?

[esh]

Silicon is bad for your teeth.

[Gary]

Nvidia still have competition from ATI which AMD own though, it seems to swing one way then the other as each company leapfrogs the other for a short while, you can never keep up, and really there is no point trying.

[DorsetBoy]

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2024211/acer-offers-sandy-bridge-victims-service-swap


Acer offers Sandy Bridge victims service or swap

[Lance]

Rik's now even getting food into the subject line of topics...

[Rik]

It takes years of training and dedication.