SANTA CLARA - Damage to the design of the processor chip 6 of the brand-new series, Sandy Bridge, forcing Intel to stop shipment on Monday (01/31/2011) local time. Defective chip was used in the latest generation processors Sandy Bridge, which was introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in 2011 then. Intel has stopped shipping the defective product and plans to redesign. Intel discovered the problem in chip design series 6, with a code of Cougar Point, which began shipping on January 9th. Known, port Serial ATA (SATA) in the chip vulnerable to damage so the impact on performance or storage function devices such as hard drives, such as reported by Macworld, Tuesday (01/02/2011). "Intel is hoping to begin sending the revised version of the chip. End of February to April later this issue is resolved. Intel is responsible for its products and is committed to maintaining the quality of those products," Intel said in a statement. Although only pull the chips are shipped in early January, these issues are allegedly going to make Intel's loss of earnings up to USD300 million in the first quarter of 2011. But Intel insists, this chip design error will not have a major impact on their annual income. This is a hard blow to Intel, which has been known to always produce the chip design is flawless. "Does this problem change people's perception of the quality of Intel?'s Possible," said analyst Patrick Wang. "You have a product that has been tested and received the green light. Then, you go back and say that the product had a problem so you have to pull back," added Wang
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