>Since only one in 9 billion values caused the problem, Intel's view was that the problem was trivial: "This doesn't even qualify as an errata." This sounds ut

>Since only one in 9 billion values caused the problem, Intel's view was that the problem was trivial: "This doesn't even qualify as an errata." This sounds utterly insane. You are making a CPU, if any calculations are wrong it needs to be fixed ?? I supposed this only came to light very late into testing and it was very impractical to bin every cpu, so they rolled the dice.