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Intel bug may affect Internet PCs
News Rumours that Intel already knew about the bug have been denied by the company, which claims it first heard about it on Friday. The bug, known as FO or FOOF, was initially reported on the BugTraq UNIX security mailing list on Friday.
[November 10, 1997, 11:25]
Intel confirms Pentium bug, seeks workaround
News Intel, which regularly posts known errata - or bugs - on its Web site was made aware of this latest bug on Friday. This is the second time this year the Intel Secrets Web site has made Intel aware of a bug in its processors.
[November 11, 1997, 10:49]
A Year Ago: Intel delay Xeon to fix bug
News Intel began notifying OEMs of the errata, or bug, late last week, sources said. As a result of the bug, however, server makers and users will be limited to dual-processor Pentium II servers for a while longer.
[June 23, 1999, 6:42]
US News: Intel delay Xeon to fix bug
News Intel began notifying OEMs of the errata, or bug, late last week, sources said. As a result of the bug, however, server makers and users will be limited to dual-processor Pentium II servers for a while longer.
[June 23, 1998, 15:13]
Intel swats Pentium 4 bug
News Intel got its first Pentium 4 bug fix out of the way just before the new chip reached consumers. Intel worked with PC makers -- who had already received the chip with the glitch -- to update the BIOS software before they began shipping Pentium 4...
[November 22, 2000, 8:44]
Five years ago: Intel owns up to chip bug
News It said that the anonymous discoverer of the bug was right in spotting a flaw in the way the chips flag an error when floating point numbers are converted to integer. The erratum in the Pentium Pro and Pentium II processors is that the hardware...
[May 10, 2002, 7:01]
One Year Ago: Intel owns up to chip bug
News Intel has owned up to the Dan-0411 bug that affects Pentium Pro and Pentium II processors. It said that the anonymous discoverer of the bug was right in spotting a flaw in the way the chips flag an error when floating point numbers are converted to...
[May 11, 1998, 6:00]
Intel owns up to chip bug
News It said that the anonymous discoverer of the bug was right in spotting a flaw in the way the chips flag an error when floating point numbers are converted to integer. The erratum in the Pentium Pro and Pentium II processors is that the hardware...
[May 12, 1997, 12:27]
Five Years Ago: Intel 'jumping all over' new bug scare
News Reported in Robert Collins' x86 Monthly Digest, a well-known Web site for observers of Intel activity, the brouhaha refers to an arcane problem allegedly experienced by Pentium II and Pentium Pro chips converting floating point to integer numbers.
[May 3, 2002, 7:01]
Intel 'jumping all over' new bug scare
News Reported in Robert Collins' x86 Monthly Digest, a well-known Web site for observers of Intel activity, the brouhaha refers to an arcane problem allegedly experienced by Pentium II and Pentium Pro chips converting floating point to integer numbers.
[May 6, 1997, 10:45]
ZD Labs Euro boss thinks Intel bug is 'obscure'
News In an article posted on the ZD Net UK Web site today, Henning calls the bug "very obscure .the sort that normally only concerns compiler writers who routinely have to find workarounds to many small anomalies in the way processors work".
[May 7, 1997, 15:29]
Coppermine bug is a false alarm says Intel
News German computing magazine c't has according to Intel erroneously reported a possible flaw in the 733MHz Coppermine chip after testing the chip with the notoriously faulty i820 motherboard, which has since been withdrawn by Intel.
[October 26, 1999, 10:17]
One Year Ago: Pentium Pro, Pentium II bug warning hits Intel
News Reports of a possible new bug in Pentium II and Pentium Pro processors could rain on Intel's parade as the chip giant announces Pentium II later today. Reported in the x86 Monthly Digest, a Web site dedicated to reporting on Intel, the bug is named...
[May 5, 1998, 6:00]
Intel fixes SSD data-loss bug
News Intel has resumed shipping the latest generation of its solid-state drives after fixing a password bug that made users' data permanently inaccessible. The bug affected Intel's X25-M and X18-M SSDs built using the 34nm manufacturing process, which...
[August 12, 2009, 17:23]
Pentium Pro, Pentium II bug warning hits Intel
News Reported in the x86 Monthly Digest, a Web site dedicated to reporting on Intel, the bug is named "Dan-0411" after its discoverer who e-mailed site editor Robert Collins with his discovery, and the April 11 date he first reported the problem.
[May 6, 1997, 9:40]
Minor bug lingers in Pentium 4
News A bug associated with the Pentium 4 that delayed Intel's introduction of the chip by a month is still with us, but the potential for damage appears to be relatively slight. A bug -- or, in chipmaker parlance, errata -- in the chipset for the...
[December 27, 2000, 13:41]
Coppermine bug stops PC shipments
News The bug has not been found in mobile Pentium III chips, according to Intel. Intel, meanwhile, said the glitch is found in only a few Pentium III chips and no such problems have been reported yet by end users -- the bug was discovered in lab testing.
[December 2, 1999, 8:48]
Mobile I/O
Downloads Please note that the initial release of Mac OS X for Intel (10.4.4) had a bug in Firewire that will cause a kernel panic if you run MIO Console with a Mobile I/O attached. This bug was fixed in OS 10.4.5 for Intel, so you will need to update to...
[August 28, 2009, 16:02]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I remember Intel saying much the same about a certain FDIV bug in the Pentium: there wasn't a problem, then there was a problem but it affected vanishingly small numbers of people so if you wanted a replacement you had to prove you were doing Hard...
[March 11, 2002, 9:20]
Analysis: AMD to capitalise on Intel's woes
News The newly uncovered bug in the Pentium III must seem like icing on AMD's Christmas cake. Dan computers admits it has been spooked by the bug, and as a result is taking another look at AMD's faster offering.
[December 3, 1999, 10:22]
