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美国英特尔公司是全球最大的电脑主机芯片制造商,对近十几年的电脑统一化、普及化做出过巨大贡献。该公司从286、386到486,都在提高电脑运算速度方面,研制出一系列高品质的芯片。因此,全世界主要电脑制造商,都将“英特尔”视为信誉的保障。但是,英特尔去年推出的新产品“潘婷”(Pentium)主机芯片,虽然大大加快了运算速度,却因有可能出现微乎其微的小错误又不及时纠正,而因小失大。 去年夏天,英特尔公司的工程师首次发现了“潘婷”主机芯片可能出现的运算错误。但公司认为,出现这种运算错误的机会是90亿分之一,多数用户需2.7万年才会遇到一次。于是决定暂不公布这一消息,同时加速研制新产品,打算在1995年初以新产品取代“潘婷”主机芯片。 然而,事情并非像英特尔公司所想像的那样。去年10月,弗吉尼西亚州的一位大学教授也发现了这一可
Intel Corporation of the United States is the world’s largest manufacturer of computer host chips and has made tremendous contributions to the unification and popularization of computers in the past ten years. From 286, 386 to 486, the company has developed a series of high-quality chips in order to increase the speed of computer operations. Therefore, the major computer manufacturers all over the world regard “Intel” as the guarantee of their credibility. However, Intel’s new Pentium-hosted chip, introduced last year, has greatly accelerated the speed of operation, but it has been lost due to the possibility of minor errors that are not corrected in time. Last summer, Intel’s engineers discovered for the first time possible operational errors in the “Pantene” host chip. However, the company believes that the chance of such an operational error is one in nine billion, and that most users will only need to meet once in 27,000 years. It was decided not to release this news temporarily, and at the same time accelerate the development of new products, and it intended to replace the “Pantene” host chip with new products in early 1995. However, things are not as Intel has imagined. In October last year, a university professor in Virginia State also discovered this