Of course they aren't. There is an entire engineering support division for this sales and support and that's what they do. But as I and some other have said, in certain configurations the affected options may not have any built configuration that will expose the issue. If an issue does arise, then it will be those motherboard manufacturers that will be doing the recalls not Intel.
Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Steven Peck <[email protected]> wrote: > > While Intel does make and ship motherboards, they ship far more chip-sets > > then motherboards. The announcement makes sense for those configurations > > that do not leverage certain of the problematic chip-set capabilities. > > While true, consider also that many of the "third-party > motherboards" built by the likes of Dell, HP, and other big PC makers > are often just Intel reference designs with a few tweaks. It's > getting harder to tell the chipset apart from the motherboard these > days. So just because Intel is shipping more chips than boards > doesn't mean they're disconnected from the process once the truck > leaves the dock. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
