Alsof Intel de laatste tijd nog niet genoeg blunders heeft gemaakt, strooien ze ook nog eens dit disaster over ons heen: er blijkt een kever in de Camino chipset te zitten, waardoor het ding niet overweg kan met een derde RIMM slot. Dit stelt de fabrikanten van PC's met Camino borden voor de keuze of zij een computer met een bug gaan shippen, of dat zij al hun reeds gebouwde PC's met Camino planken gaan vervangen, wat een enorme kapitaalvernietiging zou betekenen. News.com doet verslag:
Intel has acknowledged a major problem involving Rambus memory technology that could delay for months computers that were scheduled to debut Monday, sources say.[...] "This is so very close to the ship date for these machines that it must have been an absolutely terrible last-minute decision to make," said Peter Glaskowsky, an analyst with Microdesign Resources.
"It's going to be very, very expensive," he said. "Every machine put together has to be taken apart. The motherboards have to be taken apart and destroyed, and they have to build new motherboards."
The problem stems from how much memory the computers can use, Glaskowsky said. The systems built so far have three slots in the motherboard for Rambus memory, but now Intel has said that systems should only have two, he said.
The existence of the third memory slot can cause data to get lost while being transferred between memory and the main processor, Glaskowsky said. According to sources, Intel has notified manufacturers that the third slot is a problem, even if it's empty.
Some manufacturers may still ship affected computers, but others will scrap the guts of the systems they have built so far and start over, sources familiar with the problem say.
[...] Glaskowsky said that any system with three Rambus memory slots "isn't going to be shippable." However, another source said: "Most people are going to go ahead and ship with the bug," then update the computer innards when new parts are available.
Glaskowsky estimated that between 100,000 and a million systems already have been built with the defective parts.
Intel heeft het dus weer eens lekker voor mekaar... Check News.com voor het complete verhaaltje.
