Intel Corp (INTC)

[morrowinder]

Maui:

The bottom line is that this ICH6 screw up is not good for public perception but I think there a few key things that you have to consider:

1. Scale. It doesn't appear to be that big and it doesn't affect any end users.

2. Severity. Its already been fixed, its a simple fix.

3. Financial impact. This is the unknown at this point. But I believe it will be small.

It does bother me that this happened but I'm not going to focus on it excessively. It's a bump in the road. If it happened to AMD we likely would never know about it. They simply aren't scrutinized this much plus they probably would have swept it under the rug. You certainly didn't see the furor or headlines on the Opteron bug did you(well except for the inquirer but even that was nothing compared to their caustic headlines on this Grantsdale thing).