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Intel Atom chips have been dying for at least 18 months
- chmaynard 10y agoAs the Watergate scandal taught us, the cover-up is almost always much worse than the obvious alternative -- publicly admitting the mistake and making amends.
- DrScump 10y agowhich results in bricked systems Is that choice of "bricked" deliberate? When I see "bricked", I assume irreparable and all contents unrecoverable -- does such a failure go beyond the Atom and destroy data as well?
- Dotnaught 10y agoCisco's advisory on the issue states: "Once the component has failed, the system will stop functioning, will not boot, and is not recoverable."
- boznz 10y agoNasty if true, I have 18 atom C2550 touch screen PC's in use in client locations all are now about 18 months old and out of customer warranty but I am going to be in a bit of a moral dilemma if a processor fails prematurely due to this. Question is how would I even tell if the fault was down to a faulty CPU and what should my moral obligations be to clients considering I am unlikely to get replacement motherboards off the manufacturer?
- madengr 10y agoWould be interesting to know exactly why, at the transistor level, it is failing.