Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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smooth2o, do not confuse 'recall' with 'cancel'. The bug that Intel documented can cause data corruption and crashes, and is not due to "hardware or software bugs" (I guess it means that the problem is in the processor, not the mobo). This is all by their own admission.

There aren't that many of them in the field (maybe 5000) - why not do a recall and replace them with fixed versions? Is the Itanium2 architecture so broken that it is unfixable for clock rates above 800MHz? Will Madison have the same bug? Will Madison be delayed for a rework of the layout, or perhaps be limited in clock rate also?

The fact that Intel is not doing a recall brings up a lot of questions about the health of the Itanium product line. If Madison does not have the problem, then Intel can well afford to instruct users to run Itanium2 at 800MHz and give them a coupon for a free Madison upgrade motherboard. Certainly the customers who trusted Intel enough to be on the bleeding edge deserve this!

The other shoe has not dropped.