January 24th, 2006
Intel Core Duo a Train Wreck CPU?
By Alice Hill
RealTechNews
It’s starting to look like Intel rushed the Core Duo CPU to market. Processor errata are piling up at the alarming rate of one and a half a day. To date there are 34 known issues, but that’s in less than a month - the Pentium 4 by contrast had 65 over the entire lifespan of the chip.
Its errata documenation reveals 34 known issues with the processor. That averages out to almost an error and a half a day being discovered. Now, it’s nothing new for processors to have errors; the Pentium 4 has 65 known errors. But those 65 have been accumulated over the life of the chip. Source: OS86Project.org via Geek.com
Matthew Price says:
I’m glad I went with the iMac G5 back in November. I was debating holding out for the Mactels but I’ll trade stability for speed anyday.
January 24th, 2006 at 2:36 pm
Bill King says:
Ouch… They’re some pretty serious bugs in there too. Ranging from stability to exploitables to inaccurate calculations to system hangs. That’s quite impressively bad…
January 24th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
Dick Sadler says:
Intel has recently decided to discontinue use of the logo: “Intel-Inside,” which many consider to be a warning label.
For my use, it’s AMD all the way.
January 25th, 2006 at 12:29 pm
Ken says:
I bought a Lenovo/IBM ThinkPad with a Core Duo processor in February of this year and it has been in for repair three times (it’s now July). Just before sending it the last time, I had 7 blue-screen stop errors in one day, and never less than two for weeks. I’ve just learned that Intel has issued a new BIOS version for my machine which is supposed to fix the problems. IMO, Intel probably made the Core Duo to handle Vista, but overlooked the fact that it would also be installed in machines having older operating systems, like XP, which will probably be around for a long time (it’s a proven OS and you don’t have to buy a new computer to use it, or discard all your programs that won’t work with Vista).
July 15th, 2007 at 4:46 pm