After a successful launch of the new Sandy Bridge processors, Intel is in the offing for a disaster. All previously delivered chipsets are faulty, the SATA controller threatens to precipitate. In response to Intel has now issued a profit warning and indicates solve the problem will soon be able to.
A design error in one of the metal layer is to blame for a disaster, betittelt whose entire extent Intel is already at around $ 1 billion. This error, which is included in the 65 nm structures, the SATA controller fails after a while, after it may be even before the total failure to "quality losses". say whether and how these, and how the parties must worry about their data is not yet known. Especially dangerous is the situation for the owners of notebooks whose chipsets are exposed to much higher temperatures than those of Desktoppendanten.
The error is likely to delay the delivery of current notebooks continue or even stop, as manufacturers are not able to fix with a software workaround the error. Only the two SATA 6.0Gbps ports, high speed are not affected, and could be used. The parties currently not many options remain: either the manufacturer exchange on goodwill already purchased mainboards against those with error-free chips, or customer must create it yourself. Here it is only to keep the temperature of the components as small as possible, either with other fans for desktop computer or laptop Coolpads.
Until this new series are cast in silicon, have been soldered in Asia on their substrates and have again found their way back, it will take until at least mid-March, if not longer. Until the bug is fixed, we can only advise potential buyers to postpone buying the hardware at least a month to not be victims at the end of an error that is hidden deep inside your computer and may provide data loss.
source:pcmaster