If they are still in business you mean?
Jon On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Steven Peck <sep...@gmail.com> wrote: > Of course they aren't. There is an entire engineering support division for > this sales and support and that's what they do. But as I and some other > have said, in certain configurations the affected options may not have any > built configuration that will expose the issue. If an issue does arise, > then it will be those motherboard manufacturers that will be doing the > recalls not Intel. > > > Steven Peck > http://www.blkmtn.org > > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Ben Scott <mailvor...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Steven Peck <sep...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > While Intel does make and ship motherboards, they ship far more >> chip-sets >> > then motherboards. The announcement makes sense for those >> configurations >> > that do not leverage certain of the problematic chip-set capabilities. >> >> While true, consider also that many of the "third-party >> motherboards" built by the likes of Dell, HP, and other big PC makers >> are often just Intel reference designs with a few tweaks. It's >> getting harder to tell the chipset apart from the motherboard these >> days. So just because Intel is shipping more chips than boards >> doesn't mean they're disconnected from the process once the truck >> leaves the dock. >> >> -- Ben >> >> ~ 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 >> >> > ~ 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 > ~ 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