The Defective Products Of Intel

Published:2011/2/11 21:52:00 Author:Li xiao na From:SeekIC

The recovery of the personal computer market is influenced by the industry chain crisis. Many computer manufacturers maintain that the defective product of the Intel impact the sales of the entire market. Intel admitted that the design defect was existed in its chip group of Cougar Point in last month. About five percent of the hardware and DVD will be unable to response within three years. This chip group is the key component of Sandy Bridge which is the second generation processor of Intel; therefore, the shipment of Sandy was stopped.

The defective products will make Intel lose 300 million US dollars directly in the first quarter of this year; what is more, Intel should spend more than one billion US dollars to deal with the aftermath. Just like the case which had happened in NVIDIA, their package problem of the chip had influenced millions of system. They had to spend ten billion US dollars to solve the problems.

Intel’s defective products will have impact on the entire industry, and it will also face the trust crisis from partners. After this incident, Samsung and Toshiba have to recall their related computer products; Lenovo, HP and Dell also stop their products; Acer and HP have to delay release of their new products which are based on the platform, because they must wait the Intel to deal with these problems.

Actually, the world’s personal computer market is easy in recent years, and it was impacted by the tablet computer in last year. Some data shows that the shipment of the personal computer was bad in the fourth quarter of last year. The growth rate of personal computer was only 2.6%. The computer manufacturers all place hopes on this years’ shipment, but the incident of Intel makes them frustrated. The related integrated circuit is FDS6898AZ.

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