The problem was Intel started the problem by worrying more about their margins; As it stood it cost them close to half a Billion to replace the chips. (Not at

The problem was Intel started the problem by worrying more about their margins; As it stood it cost them close to half a Billion to replace the chips. (Not at all agreeing with their initial response of 'If you can show it impacts your work we will replace it') Intel also stood to lose a lot of the P5 got a bad rep at the time. With the Pentium, Intel started getting serious about selling Chipsets. [0] Bad press for the P5 would hurt their chipset sales too now, since at the time there was no 3rd party option [1,2] It's not like a lot of manufacturers are better. ALi never fixed the Aladdin V Chipset (loved to crash with some AGP cards like the TNT2) or Magik 1 (loved to crash if your DDR sticks had more than 2 or 3 'sides' populated). VIA 686B bus issues causing data corruption (Yes, Creative labs cards were a trigger for this, but I understand there could be others.) Cyrix had the Coma Bug. Early Opterons had an issue with multi-pop+return that could impact the stack pointer. Buuuuut Intel does seem to have a higher list of documented issues over the years. And as the player with historically the largest margins, you'd expect them to do better. [0] - If you look at 486 and earlier, more frequently you'd see random 3rd parties like Opti and SiS. only some of whom made it past the Pentium era. [1] - K5 wasn't until 1996, over a year after Intel agreed to replace everyone's broken parts [2] - Echoes of history would follow later, when the i820 was released and Intel tried hack after hack to avoid admitting they screwed something up.