AMD revs up Athlon as Intel stumbles
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AMD revs up Athlon as Intel stumbles
By Will Wade , EE Times
August 29, 2000 (6:56 p.m. EST)
URL: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20000828S0064
SAN MATEO, Calif. Intel Corp. has announced a recall of its flagship processor, the 1.13-GHz Pentium III, because a flaw has been discovered in some devices. While the company does not believe that the bug will appear in one of the chips that has been produced and shipped, it is starting to notify OEM customers that they may return any defective parts, and Intel will not be selling any more of them until a design revision can be completed, which will likely take a few months. The decision to take the 1.13-GHz Pentium III off the market allows Intel rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. to regain the speed lead in the x86 processor market. AMD has just announced volume availability of a 1.1 GHz Athlon device, and eight PC OEMs are already taking orders for systems based on the chips. With the 1.13-GHz Pentium III unavailable, Intel's current fastest device is the 1 GHz Pentium III, according to a company spokesman. Intel confirmed the glitch i n its own labs after receiving notice from customers, and other reports appeared on Internet postings that the chip had failed in some cases. The spokesman would not describe the exact conditions that bring on the failure, but said they were related to both temperature and specific applications, and that the company has been able to reproduce the problem. Although the issue appears to be related to a specific circuit, he would not specify if the flaw has also been tied to a specific fab or manufacturing lot. So far, Intel has shipped "very few," of these fast Pentium III chips, and they were only launched at the end of July, according to the company spokesman. They are listed at $990 in 1,000-unit shipments, and the company's goal is to step the design and have it back on the market within two months. In the meantime, this black eye for Intel may turn out to be a feather in AMD's cap, and at least two more PC OEM customers are on deck to turn out systems with the 1.1 GHz Athlon in the near future. FONT>
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