Meantime back home, as we suspected would happen, IBM Corp’s largesse in promising to replace Pentium chips for any IBM customer that requests one, has run the company into trouble with Intel Corp. Intel reportedly gives users requesting a replacement a 50-minute ear-bashing and only reluctantly agrees to replace the chip for any user unable to blind it with a stream of floating point higher mathematics, but IBM has offered to replace the bad chip in nearly 100,000 Pentium computers it has shipped so far, but it is not prepared to pay for the labour involved – and nor is Intel.
