How can consumers trust a microprocessor which does not compute correctly?
Let’s take a look at all that entails. As of today, Intel has publicly released information on 105 bugs in its Core 2 CPUs. The Core 2 microprocessor was officially introduced by Intel on July 29, 2006 – and even at that time there were at least 18 known bugs, which are called “errata” in CPUs. Errata indicate behavior that deviates from the published specs. Errata range in scope from completely innocuous quirks to full-on system crashes and corrupted data. Of the 105 errata currently listed by Intel, only 4 have already been fixed in hardware. These fixes shipped in the most recent L2 stepping. Anyone with the previous B2 or B3 steppings will still have those errata. Only 32 of the 105 are planned to be fixed at some point in the future. That leaves 69 errata which Intel does not currently have any plans to fix. Some of those do have software workarounds and are not, therefore, considered as a requirement to fix in hardware. The concerns many analysts and consumers have with this most
