Wan Feng recalled that when the Pentium processor was released, it actually had bugs.
A few days before the launch of the first generation of Pentium, Intel programmers discovered during testing that there would be some deviation in the division operation of the Pentium chip. According to them, this problem could only cause an error once in 9 billion division operations.
Intel executives believed that few people would be affected by the computational error and decided to release the Pentium chip as planned.
Thought Intel could fix this before anyone found out.
The first people to discover this vulnerability in the previous life were a New York bank and a multimedia development company, who made miscalculations when using computers equipped with Pentium microprocessors.
Then, a US testing institute in Long Island, New York, also discovered an error when calculating the effects of subatomic collisions.
This incident was exposed.
It is said that when this issue was exposed, Intel's valuation fell by 8%.
It was February 1995, almost two years after the Pentium processor was released.
The flaw stems from the floating-point unit built into the Pentium chip, and Intel thought it could fix the problem before anyone discovered it, but it never did until the problem was exposed.
This problem exists not only in Pentium, but also in subsequent Pentium and other chips, and it has never been solved.
After the problem broke out, Intel's defense was that an error only occurred once in 9 billion calculations, which would mean it would only occur once in 27,000 years on a personal computer, so it would not affect use.
IBM then contradicted Intel's assertion, stating that one of its experts believes the Pentium microprocessor's error rate is much higher than Intel itself claims, with an average of one error occurring every 24 days for each user.
It really doesn't have much impact on ordinary people. Even if a mistake occurs once a day, the consequences will not be significant. However, for some high-tech companies and organizations, this is a big problem.
A small mistake can lead to a big error. If the US missile using the Pentium computer also had an error, the missile might have flown to somewhere else.
Intel had no choice but to order a recall of these chips.
This led Intel to announce the recall of the affected CPUs. The cost of this recall to Intel was as high as 475 million US dollars. Taking inflation into account, Intel's losses amounted to 800 million US dollars.
After these chips were recalled, some of the defective CPUs were made into keychains by the official.
Wan Feng felt that this was a gimmick that could be used. Although it was unlikely that Intel would be unable to recover from it, it was possible to cause trouble for it and affect its reputation, which Wan Feng would be happy to see happen.
However, he also doesn't want Intel to die. If it really dies, AMD will survive, as it is also an American company.
It is better to let them compete with each other, while other companies hide behind and develop secretly.
Although Intel's recall will not incur huge costs like in the previous life if this problem is exposed now, it will have a huge impact on Pentium's reputation. Even if it is not fatal, it will be enough to cause it trouble.
After all, this is a newly released chip. Just when everyone is beginning to accept the advanced nature of this chip, it is suddenly revealed that it has defects. Who will still buy it?
Of course, the report would be exaggerated. Even a pinhole would be described as the size of a bowl.
Sue? Just tell me if there's something wrong with your chip.
Is that so? If so, what else can you say? Even if you accuse me of exaggeration, it doesn't prove that you are innocent.
In this way, the situation in which he was ready to unify the country in the previous life will be greatly delayed. Even if it is delayed for one year, it will be a victory.
"Cheng Gong! You should carefully verify the Pentium chip. It must have errors, mainly in the division method. Minister Wu Chuan, who came to chat with me a few days ago, said he saw an internal reference document with an article quoted by American experts saying that the Pentium chip has a loophole in the division method and will cause calculation errors after a certain number of operations. Please verify it."
Wan Feng couldn't explain how he knew about this loophole, so he had to drag Wu Chuan out to take the blame.
Cheng Gong's eyes lit up.
"Is that true?"
"I'll give you one month to find this loophole and tell me once you've verified it."
"Okay! I'll personally lead the calculation right away."
In an instant, Cheng Gong seemed to have a motor installed on his body. He stepped on the hot wheels and passed by Wan Feng in a flash. He rushed out the door like the wind, leaving someone who was still spinning in the chair with a confused look on his face.
A few days later, Chen Wenxin returned from Beijing and handed the formal agreement to Wan Feng.
"Okay, I'm exhausted from being urged on by you, a life-threatening person."
Wan Feng put the agreement in the safe.
"Don't complain, I'll give you a big red envelope at the end of the year."
Chen Wenxin immediately became excited: "How big is the red envelope?"
"Can't you women be more ambitious? Your ears fly out of your legs when you mention money."
"Who gets bored when hearing about money? Tell me! How big is the red envelope?"
"How about five hundred?"
"Pah! I thought it was so big, just to send a child away!"
"Haha! Don't worry! I guarantee you'll be satisfied. Our company's salary isn't too high because we have to take care of all aspects, but I'm never stingy with bonuses. As long as you do your job well, you'll get a bonus that'll make you laugh your ass off."
"You said that, I'll remember it. If you send me a red envelope that I'm not satisfied with, I'll..."
"What do you do?"
"I'll give your son an ugly nickname, Gou Dan!"
Wan Feng laughed out loud. What's the point? He wouldn't care about dog eggs, hairy eggs, or turtle eggs.
"Then I'm leaving. I'll go home and then go to Shanghai."
Chen Wenxin walked away gracefully.
Chen Wenxin's plan was to go home to see her parents and then set off for the office in Shanghai, but her abacus beads may have fallen off and she didn't calculate it correctly.
Because the next day, several blond-haired and blue-eyed foreigners came to Nanwan Group.
When Wan Feng learned that the other party was Ai Lixin's newcomer, he frowned.
Ailixin is a company affiliated to Ruidian, and Wan Feng has no good feelings towards Ruidian as a country.
Logically speaking, Ruidian and China are thousands of miles apart, and have nothing to do with each other, so no one can reach the other.
But this country continued to cause trouble for China many years later. Wan Feng really couldn't understand how these foreigners thought.
Are pig intestines of the same grade?
Wan Feng was in no mood to deal with these people. Anyway, there was nothing good coming from these foreigners, so he called Chen Wenxin and asked Chen Wenxin to talk to them.
Instead of arguing with these foreigners, he should go home and cheer Luan Feng up.
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