Papers Home Page » Computers and Technology Intel Pentium Microprocessor Flaw In: Computers and Technology Intel Pentium Microprocessor Flaw Pentium Microprocessor Flaw NT1110 Pentium Microprocessor Flaw Pentium microprocessor flaw was in the floating-point math subsection. The flaw was found where the division result returned by the Pentium microprocessor was off by approximately sixty-one parts per million. Once Intel pinpointed the flaw, their solution was to keep the information
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tracked the error himself on the Pentium itself. After not getting a straight forward response to his initial queries to Intel and after checking his facts multiple times, he nicely posted a general notice on the internet asking others to see if they came up with the same results as he did. After that post he got a couple magazine interviews and shortly after even CNN interviewed him. Intel publicly announced that, “an error is only likely to occur [about] once in nine billion random floating point divides
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by approximately sixty-one parts per million. Once Intel pinpointed the flaw, their solution was to keep the information within the company and not disclose the information to the public. Regardless of the fact that the flaw did not affect all microprocessors, it actually only affected a very small number of customers, Intel should have openly acknowledged the problem. When customers would call into Intel with issues concerning the flaw, Intel would input a certain code into it in order to verify
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Intel engineers discovered a flaw in the floating-point math subsection of the Pentium microprocessor. Under certain data dependent conditions, low order bits of the result of floating-point division operations would be incorrect, an error that can quickly compound in floating-point operations to much larger errors in subsequent calculations. Intel corrected the error in a future chip revision, but nonetheless declined to disclose it. Dr. Thomas Nicely, Professor of Mathematics at Lynchburg College
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Most CEOs success stories started with an entrepreneur, an idea, and a business loan. Michael Dell (Dell, Founder and CEO) and Andy Grove (Intel, Cofounder and CEO) success’ stories were no exception. Michael Dell launched his company in 1984 with a unique business model known as” mass customization” (Krames, 2003, p 59) or a “one-to-one” (Krames, 2003, p 59) between customers and company. The company delivered what the customers exactly want with “rock-bottom prices” (krames, 2003, p.59). With
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Case Analysis Intel Corporation: 1968-2008 Case 6 Name: Po-Hsun Lo ID: 11018704 Date: 01/22/2012 Abstract Intel, the leading manufacturer of microprocessor since 1985, possessed 77.46% worldwide share of microprocessors for personal computers in 2007. Revenue of Intel kept increasing even during the recession of 2007, and Cost of goods sold reduced from 2005 to 2007. Such overwhelming performance pushed its major competitor, AMD that was expected to lose $1 billion on sales in 2007, to
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Hewlett-Packard in a garage in Palo Alto, California. It was mostly used in military/government and universities/science lab. It took 40+ years for the first personal computer to be created by IBM (1981). The first personal computer (PC) ran on a 4.77 Mhz Intel 8088 microprocessor [1]. After that computer world has advanced leap and bound, hardware as well as software. Some of the laptops today run on a 4.0 Ghz (almost 1000 times more powerful). According to US census, in 2012, 80% of all house hold had
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Compare and Contrast of Two Business Professionals Compare and Contrast of two business professional Dictionary.com defines business professionals as following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain. The two professional to look at are, Michael Dell and Andy Grove. Comparing people’s contribution to the information technology filed, along with identifying resistance each encountered, will help understand how they promoted their research, ideas, or programs. Noting any similarities
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INTEL CASE - Explain Intel's strategies and their evolution in time. - Analyze critically Intel's strategies. Bob, Gordon and Andrew established in California in 1968 a world famous company: Intel. At the beginning, this company produced semiconductor memory chips; however, as we will explain during this paper Intel’s production shifted into other fields. The main strategy Intel had was innovation the design of the product and being the first ones to achieve the market with the newest
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Decola D Knight 15566 Parkgate Drive Chester VA 23831 804-451-9057 PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE To obtain a challenging position where I will utilize my strong organizational, communication, computer and interpersonal skills to contribute to the productivity of the mission. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Eastern State Hospital-Program/Williamsburg Juvenile Detention Administrative Assistant (07/2004-04/2006) Provided professional-level administrative support to the Principal of two state-based
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