Intel agrees to compensate for the full cost of defective 6 series motherboards

Intel agrees to compensate for the full cost of defective 6 series motherboards According to sources from Taiwanese motherboard makers, Intel recently concluded negotiations with its motherboard partners and eventually agreed to fully cover the costs of 6-series defective motherboards, including various costs of manufacturing and sales.

However, because the evaluation and calculation of related costs is very complicated, Intel has not yet decided when to write this loss into the financial report.

So far, ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, Elite, ASRock and Other Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers, Acer, Lenovo, Toshiba and other notebook manufacturers have announced their own defective product recall plan.

Industry insiders commented that the shortcomings of this series of 6-chipsets and the resulting recalls will seriously hurt the PC consumer market demand in the first quarter of 2011, and market revenue will also be significantly lower than expected.

The news pointed out that the revised B3 stepping version 6 series chipset has started shipments on February 14 and will supply ASUS and Gigabyte to the two major motherboard manufacturers in the next week. The regular supply is expected to return to normal by April. Level.

Asustek expects the accident will bring a 2% impact on the company's first quarter revenue (estimated 2-3 billion renminbi), also making this quarter the lowest level this year, but Asustek is still optimistic about the outlook for the second quarter.

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