I'll bet it's more nuanced than that. Intel gets the benefit of public disclosure of a big and costly problem, BUT, at the 11th hour, the "business realities" of their OEM partners "forces" them to continue shipping the defective product, but only to select partners.
Now, you have to ask yourself the following: -- Are the other partners willing to lose market share by waiting for properly remediated motherboards before they ship the cool and exciting product? -- Will the OEMs label the product accordingly, or physically prevent the use of the slots in question so there are no customer surprises later on? -- Just how many motherboards will Intel actually have to recall when all is said and done? So much for an almost $billion recall. They have thus far averted a costly disaster rather nicely. *ASB *(Find me online via About.Me <http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio>) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... * On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Matthew W. Ross <mr...@ephrataschools.org>wrote: > Apparently, this is due to the OEMs wanting to release their products... > not because Intel didn't want to fix the problem. > > The compromise is apparently "We won't use the 3rd through 6th SATA ports, > or we'll get an additional SATA controller". > > *shrug* > > > --Matt Ross > Ephrata School District > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Andrew S. Baker > [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] > To: NT System Admin Issues > [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] > Sent: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 > 07:40:42 -0800 > Subject: Intel pulls a fast one in Sandy Bridge fiasco | > Processors - InfoWorld > > > > > http://www.infoworld.com/t/processors/intel-pulls-fast-one-in-sandy-bridge-fiasco-784?elq=true#comment-33801 > > > > Be careful if you're in the market for a high-end Intel-based motherboard > in > > the near term...*[1]* > > > > So much for wondering how they would handle a possible billion dollar > > recall... > > > > > > > > *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) <http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker> > > *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* > > * > > [1] Unless you don't care about SATA-2 any more...* > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
