Intel Final Paper MGMT 480- Frankforter Executive Summary As the world’s “foremost semiconductor maker,” Intel Corporation has a reputation to uphold and a future to build. Founded in 1968, Intel has grown to a company of over 90,000 employees who operate Intel’s facilities in nearly fifty countries. Intel produces processors, motherboards, chipsets, network adapters, flash memory, software, storage devices, and wireless products. Many of us are the end-users
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instructions FPTAN and FPATAN are also susceptible. The instructions FYL2x, FYL2XP, FSIN, FCOS, and FSINCOS, were a suspect but are now considered safe. Intel has adopted a no-question-asked replacement policy for its customers with the Pentium FDIV bug. It has done a statistical research and provided information on the bug at its site at Intel.com The Intel microprocessor bug is famous (or infamous) its known name is called the Pentium FDIV Bug. It was caused by an error in a lookup table that was a part
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INTEL Knows Best? A Major Marketing Mistake Problem Statement When Thomas Nicely, a mathematician at Lynchburg College in Virginia, first went public with the fact that Intel's new Pentium chip was defective Intel admitted to the fact that it had sold millions of defective chips, and had known about the defective chips for over four months. Intel said its reasoning for not going public was that most people would never encounter any problems with the chip. Intel said that a spreadsheet
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FINA - 010 Intel: Managing Working Capital Introduction op y In early 2004, Intel was the undisputed leader in the microprocessor industry with about 90% market share. Since 1968 when it was founded, Intel had launched many groundbreaking products. By 2004, it had 450 products and services ranging from the ubiquitous PC microprocessors like Pentium, the 64-bit high-end Itanium 2 to mobile computing chipsets such as Centrino. Intel ended 2002 with revenues of $ 26.7 billion. Many analysts believed
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Intel case: Takeaways Question 1 • To capitalize on the first mover advantage by creating semiconductor memory chips that were sound in product design and technology. They were risk takers and strong believers in the product they design. • Semiconductor manufacturing is a complex process and involves huge investment in technology and equipment, which caused the production yields, a main driver of the manufacturing cost would fall initially with new processes. Yields would later improve with process
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floating-point operations to much larger errors in subsequent calculations. Intel corrected the problem in a future revision, but they refused to disclose it. The mathematics professor at Lynchburg College who discovered the flaw was Dr. Thomas Nicely. Dr. Nicely then had an inquiry with Intel and upon not receiving any response from them he posted about the flaw on October 30th 1994 online. Word quickly spread of the flaw and Intel responded by saying that the bug was minor and “not even an erratum”.
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by Mark Janeba, Intel admitted the problem publically around November of 1994. Intel was going to replace the Pentium chips but only for the people that could explain their need for complicated calculations. In the end of December Intel stated that a free replacement Pentium CPU would be given for anyone that asks for one. Basically Intel was going to do a total recall, replacement and they were going to destroy any of the flawed Pentium microprocessors. I honestly don’t think Intel handled the problem
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calculations. Found after he added a Pentium System to his computer group. Upon Further inspections and calculations, he contacted Intel with his results. Intel denied that there was a problem with their chips. When it became clear that their chips were flawed, and the accusations were true. Intel changed its policy, admitting that their chips were indeed defective. Intel agreed to replace the defective chips for free, but only if the uses could demonstrate that they needed and unflawed chip
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miscalculated. These chips were installed in some residential and business computers. This flaw was found by Mr. Tim Coe in 1994 and brought to the company’s attention by Mr. Thomas Nicely, a mathematician, who repeatedly proved that this was a flaw. Intel did not immediately correct this flaw. After word of mouth, and a few emails, the company slowly came to grips that this was an issue, but only admitted this issue to be with a few CPU’s. Finally the company agreed to correct the flaw, but only if
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and how it was discovered: This flaw was discovered in 1994. Apparently Intel engineers found it but decided to keep it quiet until a professor, Dr. Thomas Nicely, discovered it and made it well known to the world, after not receiving a response from Intel on the matter. Intel’s response to the flaw: This incident actually helped make Intel a commonly unknown computer supplier to a household name. They responded with the Intel inside campaign, and becoming more user friendly in their business practices
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