Intel recently announced it had found a defect in the 6 Series chipset, which come in Sandy Bridge processors, which were released on January 9 this year. The defect gradually gets worse and ends up causing problems in the operation of SATA ports, used by both hard drives and optical drives by readers.
The company announced that the cost to repair and replace units that are coming and have been estimated at 700 million dollars. Meanwhile Intel has decided to postpone the shipment of these processors.
According to details announced by Intel, have already succeeded in correcting the problem and hope to be delivering a fully functional version in late February, and that shipments will be fully restored in April.
Those computer manufacturers or consumers who have purchased computers with these processors are coordinated in order to receive the faulty and support to correct or replace if necessary.
Due to the losses that represent this, Intel has announced that its earnings for the first quarter of the year will be only $ 300 million, yet despite these bad news on stock value has not suffered a major setback (only 1% ) and has maintained a value of $ 21.46 per share.
In other details, Intel hopes to increase the number of sales in the first quarter with the acquisition of McAfee security software developer, at the end of last year, and the recently announced acquisition of Infineon Technologies, developer of wireless technologies. In general, analysts have seen the error of processors as a small setback and expectation suggests that Intel will continue to be a safe and strong to invest.