Apple loses 14,000 G5 processors
This story is BS, FYI (-alcimedes)
I found this rather amusing, though it's probably because I don't have a G5 ordered.
Recently posted at CNET (Here ):
"Those eagerly awaiting the arrival of Apple's newly unveiled and highly touted Power Mac G5 suffered another delay this weekend as reports of a setback at IBM's multibillion-dollar Fishkill chip plant forced the Cupertino, California based company to deliver bad news yet again.
Customers received an email informing them that a ?high volume? of orders and a priority on school shipments would mean a delay of up to two weeks.
More informative and more revealing, however, are copies submitted today to News.com of a report issued by IBM regarding a major setback in chip production at their Fishkill plant. In what those not associated with IBM or Apple might call a comedy of errors (IBM called it ?a series of unfortunate and unforeseeable incidents?), almost 14,000 of the high end 2 Ghz G5 chips were manufactured with an incorrect configuration of the 130 nm transistors that the chip relies on to basically function.
The ?comedy? is not the waste of some 14,000 expensive and highly coveted chips. Rather, it is the progression of events which led to it.
1. On August 18th, IBM employee and Fishkill plant operator Marshall Herrick found out that he was due to be laid off on August 22nd, through means which have not been determined (he would not reveal them, according to the included transcript of his account).
2. Two days later (Wednesday, August 20th), Herrick planted a code in the Fishkill systemwide boot parameters which would, the following week, cause a five minute shutdown of the plant for a cleaning cycle every hour until the code was isolated and removed.
3. The next day, Herrick had second thoughts. He removed his troublesome code and resolved himself to being fired (here the firsthand account from Mr. Herrick ends).
4. Unfortunately, Herrick was a bit too thorough. Apparently, in removing his additional code from the boot parameters, he also deleted a key startup sequence that would enable a robot to access a guideline for the chip.
5. The robot defaulted to its preprogrammed guidelines, which are incompatible with the G5 architecture, and the error was not caught until the chips were later tested and found to be, in batch after batch, useless.
Needless to say, there is much about this series of incidents that is bad news for quite a few people. But in the News.com press room, and probably in computer lore, it will for some time be regarded as the worst disgruntled technological mix-up in recent history. "
I found this rather amusing, though it's probably because I don't have a G5 ordered.
Recently posted at CNET (Here ):
"Those eagerly awaiting the arrival of Apple's newly unveiled and highly touted Power Mac G5 suffered another delay this weekend as reports of a setback at IBM's multibillion-dollar Fishkill chip plant forced the Cupertino, California based company to deliver bad news yet again.
Customers received an email informing them that a ?high volume? of orders and a priority on school shipments would mean a delay of up to two weeks.
More informative and more revealing, however, are copies submitted today to News.com of a report issued by IBM regarding a major setback in chip production at their Fishkill plant. In what those not associated with IBM or Apple might call a comedy of errors (IBM called it ?a series of unfortunate and unforeseeable incidents?), almost 14,000 of the high end 2 Ghz G5 chips were manufactured with an incorrect configuration of the 130 nm transistors that the chip relies on to basically function.
The ?comedy? is not the waste of some 14,000 expensive and highly coveted chips. Rather, it is the progression of events which led to it.
1. On August 18th, IBM employee and Fishkill plant operator Marshall Herrick found out that he was due to be laid off on August 22nd, through means which have not been determined (he would not reveal them, according to the included transcript of his account).
2. Two days later (Wednesday, August 20th), Herrick planted a code in the Fishkill systemwide boot parameters which would, the following week, cause a five minute shutdown of the plant for a cleaning cycle every hour until the code was isolated and removed.
3. The next day, Herrick had second thoughts. He removed his troublesome code and resolved himself to being fired (here the firsthand account from Mr. Herrick ends).
4. Unfortunately, Herrick was a bit too thorough. Apparently, in removing his additional code from the boot parameters, he also deleted a key startup sequence that would enable a robot to access a guideline for the chip.
5. The robot defaulted to its preprogrammed guidelines, which are incompatible with the G5 architecture, and the error was not caught until the chips were later tested and found to be, in batch after batch, useless.
Needless to say, there is much about this series of incidents that is bad news for quite a few people. But in the News.com press room, and probably in computer lore, it will for some time be regarded as the worst disgruntled technological mix-up in recent history. "
Comments
Looks like a classic case of FUD, to me
Next !
Dunno.
It's exactly the text quoted above, nothing more.
With this byline:
By Matt Hines
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
September 1, 2003, 6:40 PM PT
The URL looks very strange:
http://[email protected]/2...tml?tag=fd_top
Is this whole thing being spoofed?
EDIT: Text links at the top of the page load, but none of the navigational UI tabs for "Frontpage", "Enterprise", etc., nor any of the news links on the right.
Good thing they test these procs before putting them in those cases or what?
All that perfectly good silicon wasted...
( I heard Cher is buying the 14.000 G5 to have them processed for her new (fill out bodypart )
(Edit: more fuel to the fire maybe? The link on the author's name says 'feedback to "will MS tweak IE?"'
Could the site be hacked? )
Originally posted by Ensign Pulver
Is this whole thing being spoofed?
That url explains it.
Nice attempt.
Bet Steve was pissed.
"Fake CNet Article
Tuesday September 02, 2003 01:15 AM
Someone posted a fake CNet article regarding Apple losing 14,000 processors.
Domain: temslim.com (Miller, Martin)
IP: 208.191.58.123
url: adsl-208-191-58-123.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net"
URLs that contains @ link to what is behind the @ using what is in front for autoritation or nothing at all.
[email protected] will link to ihateapple.com
[email protected] will link to a porn site and use greasypig as a log-on
Wonder where it originated, I'll call my friend in the morning. Might've been him, that's just his sense of humor...
Originally posted by Malokata
Well, I'm stupid.
Wonder where it originated, I'll call my friend in the morning. Might've been him, that's just his sense of humor...
Is his IP/ISP the same as the one MacRumors found?
Notice the favicon on the linked article. News.com's favicon is a white C inside a red circle.
On the spoofed page, the favicon is a crudely reduced picture of the CNET logo.