Intel's Expensive Disco Ball

Re-Pawn writes "From the NY Times: The Disco Ball of Failed Hopes and Other Tales From Inside Intel (Registration Required.) Seems like Intel is losing market share to other chip makers - this article highlights a few problems that Intel has had including one very expensive disco ball made from a failed attempt to produce projection televisions."

all your chips

[Shinaku]

are no longer belong to them!

now I get it.

[tloh]

...including one very expensive disco ball made from a failed attempt to produce projection televisions.

So THAT was the inspiration for those commercials with dancers in clean suits!

Intel ZIG intiative

[stealth.c]

Perhaps now would be a good time for Intel to launch its enigmatic ZIG program. Nobody's quite sure what it is but rumor has it that the new initiative could result in great justice.

Intel simulation model way off

[Anonymous Coward]

The engineer described sitting in meetings where the company's simulation models showed that 95 percent of the chips from each test wafer would be usable, while the actual yields were closer to 4 percent.

Unfortunately, the simulations were running on Intel processors and were hit with rampant floating-point errors. They should have gone with AMD like the engineers wanted.

Re:now I get it.

[stealth.c]

with the company's decline, do you suppose that they will soon be dancing in dirty suits?

Re:Registration Not Required

[jd]

It's part of a secret readership drive, using subliminal suggestions in NYT-based stories to assimilate the entire Slashdot following. It is combined with a secret program to promote the NYT as immune to terrorist attacks. After all, if they can survive a Slashdotting, they can survive anything!

Re:Article text

[itwerx]

So where the hell is a pic of the damn ball already?!?
Geez... :)

Re: disco ball

[Anonymous Coward]

"Like chips that burn but then fail the tests. What happens to all those chips?"

They get rebranded "Celeron" and sold as a low-cost alternative.

Help me out here...

[synth7]

Could someone post the article text, or perhaps another news source with this article, or perhaps post an alternative link that bypasses the NYT registration? I mean, I looked... I really did, but I just couldn't find a way to view that article in all these replies.

Seriously.

Re:Intel ZIG intiative

[s4m7]

Perhaps now would be a good time for Intel to launch its enigmatic ZIG program.

Invariably prompting AMD to release it's CATS system ahead of schedule. Make your time.

Re:Just Desserts for Intel

[Anonymous Coward]

Everyone except management.

Re:Intel ZIG intiative

[mjh49746]

Intel Chairman: Somebody set up us the bomb!!

It's fine by me. I like AMD's chips anyways.

Re:Article text

[PapayaSF]

It's one of the laws of web publishing: If an article mentions an interesting object, chances are there won't be a picture of it in the article.

Re:Article text

[Deliveranc3]

You want a damn disco ball? Then you go spend a billion dollars on research.

Damn hippies always want something for nothing.

All your CPU are belong to...

[The Master Control P]

Zilog? WTF?

Stock Fans are just crap

[Bwooce]

If I was reincarnated as an Intel Fan I would be most unimpressed. Zalman rules!

Theme Song

[FrankDrebin]

You can tell by the way I fill your box
I'm an Intel man, no time for Macs
Fan so loud and chip so warm
Transistor count from Mr. Moore
But it's all right, it's ok
Just behind your CD tray
My mission, you understand
Is pusher for the Redmond man

Whether I'm a Xeon or a first-gen peon
I'm x-eighty-six, x-eighty-six
Maybe I'm a-F00Fin' or power-supply poofin'
I'm x-eighty-six, x-eighty-six
Ah ah ah ah x-eighty-six, x-eighty-six
Ah ah ah ah x-eighty-six!

Well now, cache gets low and temp gets high
And for overclockers, I really fry
Got the gold flashing on my pads
And an F_DIV bug etched in my sand
But it's all right, it's ok
I also heard AMD is gay
And that VIA, and Transmeta
Can kiss my royal FPU

Whether I'm Centrino, you can bet that we know
I'm x-eighty-six, x-eighty-six
Ain't got sixty-four-bit, but still think I'm hot shit
I'm x-eighty-six, x-eighty-six
Ah ah ah ah x-eighty-six, x-eighty-six
Ah ah ah ah x-eighty-six!