Case Analysis: The Intel Pentium Chip Controversy (A) Immediate Issue: As Andrew Grove‚ during my meeting of December 17‚1994 with my internal team‚ Should I approve replacing the defective Intel chips of all concerned users with no-question asked? Also‚ should we also pay for the labor and other incidental costs? How should we integrate our decision into our financial books? Basic Issues: • Negative Publicity: Since Oct 30th‚ we have encountered a self-propelled negative publicity campaign
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Grove‚ President & CEO‚ Intel Inc. From: FT56212/0 Subject: The Intel Pentium Chip Controversy Intel‚ the most popular micro-processing chip manufacturer in the early nineties had introduced the Pentium processor to improve speed of computer operations. The Pentium was the result of constant innovation and expensive research and development and yet was accused as being defective in solving particular mathematical calculations. The primary question facing Intel was whether or not to recall
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The Pentium Flaw NT1110 Computer Structure and Logic Unit 2 Analysis The Pentium floating-point unit flaw only occurred on some models of the original Pentium microprocessor chip. Any of the Pentium family processors with a clock speed of at least 120 MHz is new enough not to have the bug. On the affected microprocessor models‚ the Intel Processor Frequency ID Utility checks for the floating-point unit flaw. Professor Thomas Nicely sent an email describing the flaw that he had discovered
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Locklear NT1110 Monday Research Paper: Pentium Flaw In 1994 there was a major flap in the media about Intel’s Pentium microprocessor chip. The Pentium microprocessor is the CPU for what were the widest selling personal computers. Unlike previous CPUs that Intel made‚ the 486Dx and Pentium chips included a floating point unit (FPU). Previous Intel CPUs did all their arithmetic using integers; and Pentium chips have these instructions built into the chip‚ in their FPUs. This made them much faster
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NT1110: Computer Structure and Logic ITT Technical Institute 10/20/2013 The Pentium Flaw a divisional error was discovered in the summer of 1994. The flaw was discovered by Intel. Intel decided that their chips did not need to be recalled since the chance of the average user discovering the error was less than 1 in 9 billion. Thomas Nicely a mathematics professor at Lynchburg College in Lynchburg VA made error public when he sent an e-mail to several colleagues. Nicely was using
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Kevin Flecker NT-1110 4/26/2014 Pentium Flaw The Pentium FDIV bug was a bug in the Intel P5 Pentium floating point unit (FPU). Because of the bug‚ the processor would return incorrect results for many calculations used in math and science. Intel blamed the problem on a few missing entries in the lookup table used by the company. The error was discovered by Professor Thomas R. Nicely at Lynchburg College‚ Virginia‚ USA. The error was rarely encountered by users (Byte magazine estimated that
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ARCHITECTURE TOPIC: PENTIUM PROCESSOR EVOLUTION NAME : RAHUL KUMAR REG. No. : 11111934 ROLL : A12 COURSE : CAP208 Submit to- JASLEEN Ma’am INTRODUCTION Pentium is a certain series of processors from Intel. It is a development of (and thus compatible with) older microprocessors from Intel such as 8088‚ 8086‚ 80286‚ 80386 and 80486. Computers built around these processors are usually called PC-compatible. Pentium works on the x86
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BRAND MANAGEMENT Case No. 1 INTEL: BUILDING A TECHNOLOGY BRAND INTRODUCTION Intel’s corporate branding strategy‚ which many credit for the company’s unparalleled success in the microprocessor industry during the 1990s‚ stemmed from a court decision. On March 1‚ 1991‚ District Judge William Ingram ruled that the “386” designation used by Intel for its microprocessor family was a generic description and could not be trademarked. Intel had been confident that the judge would rule in its favor
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Wilson The Pentium microprocessor flaw was discovered in June‚ 1994. The Pentium microprocessor is the CPU for what was once possibly the widest-selling personal computer. Unlike previous CPUs that Intel put on the market‚ the 486DX and Pentium chips included a floating-point unit (FPU)‚ which is also known as a math coprocessor. Previous Intel CPUs performed arithmetic using integers; programs that used floating-point numbers (non-integers like 2.5 or 3.14) needed to tell the chip how to divide
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Intel: Strategic Decisions in Locating a New Assembly and Testing Plan Intel was founded in Mountain View‚ CA in 1968 by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore‚ two physicists who worked at a San Jose-based Fairchild Semiconductors. Intel‚ which stands for “Integrated Electronics”‚ began producing semiconductors. Company timeline 1970 – Created the first commercially available dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chip 1971 – Produced the first commercially available microprocessor‚ moved their HQ to Santa
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