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Intel’s Reaction<br />

This report stirred up a huge controversy. Intel at first denied<br />

that the problem existed.<br />

Later, Intel claimed that it was not serious and would not<br />

affect most users.<br />

• However, people who could prove that they were affected<br />

would get their processor replaced by Intel<br />

However, although most independent estimates found the<br />

bug to be of little importance and have negligible effect on<br />

most users, it has caused a great public outcry.<br />

• Companies like IBM (whose "586" microprocessor competed<br />

at that time with the Intel Pentium line) joined the<br />

condemnation.<br />

Finally, Intel was forced to offer to replace all flawed Pentium<br />

processors, at huge potential cost to the company<br />

• However, it turned out that only a small fraction of Pentium<br />

owners actually bothered to get their chips replaced<br />

• Intel's stock price actually rose the day they finally<br />

acknowledged<br />

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug<br />

<strong>Boolean</strong> <strong>SAT</strong> <strong>Algorithms</strong> / FLOLAC 2009 Prof. Chung-Yang (Ric) Huang http://dvlab.ee.ntu.edu.tw<br />

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