Intel is receiving mostly positive feedback for its handling of the Sandy Bridge chipset recall, and a big reason for that may be the chip maker's past missteps in dealing with high-profile design ...

Intel Corp., the world’s largest semiconductor maker, was already the butt of jokes on the Internet when International Business Machines Corp. announced last week that it would suspend sales of ...

Question: What do you get when you cross a Pentium PC with a research grant? Answer: A mad scientist. Jokes like these, making their way across the Internet, underscore users’ anger at the Intel Corp.

The highs and lows aren’t as far apart as you might think in a fast-moving industry. Last month, Intel’s chief executive, Andrew S. Grove, impishly waxed on about his idea of wonderland. He said a ...

We’ve all heard this scolding time and again from members of the computer priesthood: the folks who run the software companies, make the chips and operate the technical-support desks of America.

Glitches in Intel Corp.’s heralded Pentium microprocessor prompted IBM to halt shipments Monday of personal computers equipped with the microchip, amplifying a public-relations nightmare for the world ...

This week we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the FDIV bug, an error in the then-new Intel Pentium processor. It was discovered by Thomas Nicely, a professor of ...

Intel recalled the Pentium P5 chip in 1995 that produced errors for certain calculations. The recalled chips were turned into keychains for Intel employees. The keychains had an inscription from ...

(This article originally appeared in the Mercury News on December 19, 1994.) The highs and lows aren’t as far apart as you might think in a fast-moving industry. Last month, Intel’s chief executive, ...