Intel does it again

[glugglug]

HP recalls 900,000 notebooks made with Intel chipsets this quarter

Apparently Samsung, Infineon, Micron, and Winbond memories have a compatibility problem when used with Mobile P4s and discrete graphics. That's 4 of the top 5 memory manufacturers (does HP even use Hynix)?

<sarcasm>But it's a problem with the memory, not the Intel chips</sarcasm>

 

[glugglug]

How many notebooks do you think Dell and Toshiba will be recalling?

 

[Schadenfroh]

But But, intel puts so much more time and money into testing and quality assurance than AMD

 

[us3rnotfound]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
But But, intel puts so much more time and money into testing and quality assurance than AMD

haha what a bunch of fvcking d!ckwads :roll:

 

[us3rnotfound]

k

 

[clarkey01]

"But But, intel puts so much more time and money into testing and quality assurance than AMD"


But still f*ck up more

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: clarkey01
"But But, intel puts so much more time and money into testing and quality assurance than AMD"


But still f*ck up more

It might be because they move around 40x the number of products... and rake in hundreds of millions more a year.

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: clarkey01
"But But, intel puts so much more time and money into testing and quality assurance than AMD"


But still f*ck up more

Check the batteries in your sarcasm detector. I think Schadenfroh was being sarcastic 😉

 

[imported_zenwhen]

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: clarkey01
"But But, intel puts so much more time and money into testing and quality assurance than AMD"


But still f*ck up more

It might be because they move around 40x the number of products... and rake in hundreds of millions more a year.

You're right on the money there. If AMD had nearly the marketshare that Intel has, people might actually notice the issues they have too.

AMD in the mobile market? LOL

 

[clarkey01]

they mess up about the same

Intel : RD Ram / P3 1.13Ghz recall / Prescott / Willy/ I wouldnt say Itanium was a flop but its not been stella has it (billions of cash pumped into it)/ sure theres more

AMD : K6 err / The late xp's/ the hammer delays

feel free to add more

 

[formulav8]

The post said Recalls. Not Delays

 

[Adul]

nothing is perfect in this world. At least they made a recall on them,

 

[ViRGE]

Is this really an Intel problem though, or is it a memory company problem?

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
Is this really an Intel problem though, or is it a memory company problem?

i think it's a chipset / cpu problem. some of the largest memory makers aren't compatible with what intel has out for notebooks.

but who really knows?!

 

[CraigRT]

I hate Intel... I will never buy their overpriced garbage for my own PC. (this doesn't have anything to do with it)

 

[AzNKiD]

i just ordered dell 600m yesterday, should i worry about this? its 1.5 dothan and i plan to buy 256mb from cruical ram.

 

[caz67]

hate Intel... I will never buy their overpriced garbage for my own PC. (this doesn't have anything to do with it)

LOL... Don't hold back, show us your true feelings..

Seriously, at least Intel is recalling them all back. Would AMD be able to do the same, in that situation???

 

[n0cmonkey]

I think it's good Intel is recalling the parts. I'll stop there. 😛

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

i think everyone is underestimating the "problem". its FIVE CHIPSETS with this problem, how could they possibly make such a blunder,how could it even be overlooked big or small? unless its the same basic chipset with slight variation? i don't know much about intel chipsets.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: clarkey01
they mess up about the same

Intel : RD Ram / P3 1.13Ghz recall / Prescott / Willy/ I wouldnt say Itanium was a flop but its not been stella has it (billions of cash pumped into it)/ sure theres more

AMD : K6 err / The late xp's/ the hammer delays

feel free to add more

dont forget the original pentium arithmatic error

 

[txxxx]

Originally posted by: zenwhen

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: clarkey01
"But But, intel puts so much more time and money into testing and quality assurance than AMD"


But still f*ck up more

It might be because they move around 40x the number of products... and rake in hundreds of millions more a year.

You're right on the money there. If AMD had nearly the marketshare that Intel has, people might actually notice the issues they have too.

AMD in the mobile market? LOL

AMD in the mobile market's doing well at the moment.

 

[PhlashFoto]

hmm, I seem to recall issues with Via mobos and Creative sound cards a while back and an unrelated issue with southbridge IDE performance. Did Via address the problem?? Yes, by saying something to the effect of "buy our new chipset..." Since at the time it was mostly Via that was producing chipsets for AMD's Athlon line, this surely didnt help AMD rep as quality. Did ppl get up and flame Via for not doing anything? No. But when Intel address the problem and then issues an alert,which i dont even think it is classified as an offical recall, ppl get all crazy......

See if Via would have responded the same way.... I highly doubt it.


But then ppl have the freaking nerve to accuse Intel of terrible quality..... Get real!!

 

[kalster]

Originally posted by: Adul
nothing is perfect in this world. At least they made a recall on them,

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

Elopse,it was a PCI latency issue with CREATIVE CARDS,not every single card on the marke(you can patch it too,very simple issue). much less almost all the ram on the market.

i personally had a friend with a first gen centrino chipset and he bought and RMA's 3 stick of ram, 2 being Crucial trying to get it to work in his IBM. i guess this answers our question. he got all kinds of errors and instability every time reguardless of what he tried.

edit: the true irony in this situation is that Intel refused to license anyone else to be able to make chipsets to go with their Pentium-M line...

 

[lookouthere]

Originally posted by: ELopes580
hmm, I seem to recall issues with Via mobos and Creative sound cards a while back and an unrelated issue with southbridge IDE performance. Did Via address the problem?? Yes, by saying something to the effect of "buy our new chipset..." Since at the time it was mostly Via that was producing chipsets for AMD's Athlon line, this surely didnt help AMD rep as quality. Did ppl get up and flame Via for not doing anything? No. But when Intel address the problem and then issues an alert,which i dont even think it is classified as an offical recall, ppl get all crazy......

See if Via would have responded the same way.... I highly doubt it.


But then ppl have the freaking nerve to accuse Intel of terrible quality..... Get real!!

intel has invested much more money on development than Via does. Via ia a relatively small chipset company compare to Intel. So that's why people flame intel for doing such terrible quality. Intel should have known better when their chipset aren't good.