Pentium FDIV bug
Error de división del Intel Pentium
- Date
- 1994 · confidence high
- Place
- Lynchburg, Virginia, United States
- Credited to
- Thomas Ray Nicely
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
A hardware flaw in the floating-point unit of early Intel Pentium processors, detected by mathematician Thomas Nicely, which led Intel to recall the defective chips.
What it led to
- The first full recall of a computer chip by a manufacturer
- Changes in Intel's formal hardware-verification processes
- Greater public scrutiny of microprocessor manufacturing flaws
- A $475 million charge for Intel in 1994