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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Intel began in 1968. It was founded by Gordon E. Moore who is also a physicist and chemist. He was accompanied by Robert Noyce, also a fellow physicist and co-creator of integrated circuitry, after they both had left Fairchild Semiconductor. During the 1980’s Intel was run by a chemical engineer by the name of Andy Grove, who was the third member of the original Intel family. Many other Fairchild employees participated in other Silicon Valley companies. Andy Grove today is considered to be one of
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Ariel Torrente NT1110 Unit 5 Analysis Pentium Flaw Ariel Torrente NT1110 Unit 5 Analysis 7/27/2013 Pentium Flaw The Pentium flaw also nicknamed the Pentium FDIV bug, was an identified error in the Intel P5 Pentium floating unit. The presence of the bug can be checked manually by performing the following application that uses native floating numbers, including Windows Calculator or Microsoft Excel in Windows 95/98 (Pentium FDIV bug). The Pentium flaw was discovered byProfessor Thomas R
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encountered to Intel. The person that he contacted at Intel later admitted being aware of the flaw since May 1994. The flaw was discovered by Intel during testing of the FPU for its new P6 core, which was first used in the Pentium Pro. An example of the flaw was found where the division result returned by the Pentium microprocessor was off by about 61 parts per million. In November, 1994 the story first broke in an article published in Electronic Engineering Times. In the story, Intel says it has corrected
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1. How would you describe the structural attractiveness of the industry in which Intel participates? a. The rivalry in this industry is fierce. Intel and its competitors are not only competing for the price, the cost, the quality, and the performance of their products, but also competing for the reputation of the companies. Also, for companies, the core competence in this industry is about if the product performance satisfies with the need of current trend. b. Barriers to entry are
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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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Explain each of the Generation of Processor. P1 (086) Processor - Intel introduced the 8086 back in June 1978. The 8086 was one of the first 16-bit processor chips on the market; at the time, virtually all other processors were 8-bit designs. The 8086 had 16-bit internal registers and could run a new class of software using 16- bit instructions. [pic][pic] P2 (286) Processor - In 1982, Intel introduced the Intel 80286 processor, normally abbreviated as 286. The first CPU behind the
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devices are manmade. One of the biggest computer flaws in computer history was the “Pentium Microprocessor flaw”; this was a bug in the Intel P5 Pentium floating point that caused the processor to return incorrect results for many calculations used in math and science. This bug was blamed on the fact that there were a few missing entries in the lookup table used by Intel. This flaw was exposed by Professor Thomas R. Nicely, who was a professor at Lynchburg College in Virginia. Nicely discovered this
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