April 20, 2009
How many engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
PlayIdentify object on keychain (left). Also identify reason for said object’s infamy. Quote on right should be clue.
Cracked by almost everyone!
Answer:
Intel’s ’94 Pentium processor, which had the famous FDIV bug that caused all kinds of weird division errors. Intel released a keychani containing this processor on the front, and a quote by Andy Grove on the back. The quote was Grove’s response to the fiasco, which eventually became one of Intel’s mantras.
So yeah, it takes 1.92834674 engineers.
Subscribe
Play
Head 2 Head
this->bb();
Quote on right by Andy Grove in December 1994, after finally giving in and instituting a replacement program for the borked chips.
Phew, long time no boiledbeans.
Nehalem, intel\’s new chip.
Blame AutoRaja
And that is the processor
Blame AutoRaja
http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/15094
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
Andrew Grove of Intel coined the phrase. Context:Intel’s microprocessor, Nehalem
Blame AutoRaja
1. INTEL INSIDE ,PENTIUM
2.QUOTATION BY ANDY GROVE ,1994,DECEMBER
Infamous because of the pentium FDIV bug which resulted in a recall of pentium processors by intel.
The quote is by Andy Grove and has become intel’s mantra since then.
Some would say it was a flaw, others just decided to wait for AMD, given their abhorance for the Pentium FDIV bug!
Andy Groove quote
Infamy: Pentium FDIV Bug
Intel recalled nearly a million chips that cost the company a US$ 500 million charge.
After the crisis was resolved each employee was given a key chain, , with a flawed chip engraved, and the above mentioned quote from Andy Grove.