News - Intel conditionally resumes shipment of 6 series chipset

[HEXUS]

It’s damage limitation time for Intel over the Sandy Bridge chipset design flaw.

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[tbaracu]

Countrie have to forbid the selling of this deffect product of Intel. This bear deserve a tough lesson of life.

[drunkenmaster]

Actually its sounding like it will cost them a LOT more than $700million, why, because OEM's have had a large portion of their sales basically cut out and Intel is fearing the compensation claims from them.

If they'd launched Sandybridge late, so it had been delayed thats one thing. But if Dell buy 100,000's of chips and mobo's, ship lots have lots waiting around and most importantly replace the top end systems with Sandybridge over older chips, then they can't sell their top end systems it makes them look bad, even more so as a recall and replacement will be in place for those systems when new mobo's are available.

Feels more like Intel's hand has been forced or face signifcantly compensation claims by most of their partners, now at least Dell can sell the lowest models of their top systems and list the specs as only two sata ports(or 4 if it has a secondary sata 3 controller on the mobo).

[Tattysnuc]

Countrie have to forbid the selling of this deffect product of Intel. This bear deserve a tough lesson of life.

You what? Bear?

If I'm understanding you correctly then this is a commercial reality of a capitalist culture.

Manufacturing and the selling a product comes with the caveat that it is merely a product advertised as being able to do a job. It comes with the profit margin that Intel have built up through years of advertising and excellent high quality products with an excellent track record. You can't penalise a company for selling a product with a fault. Very few businesses will have adopted this new platform, and I would say that anyone who is basing a mission critical platform on new bleeding edge technology such as this, is ill advised in the very least.

Without trying to sound condescending, experience will tell you this...

[miniyazz]

Countrie have to forbid the selling of this deffect product of Intel. This bear deserve a tough lesson of life.

Are you trying to say countries should ban the sale of S1155 (Sandy Bridge) motherboards? If so that's a ridiculous thing to say. It's nothing to do with governments.