Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (37148)	10/29/2000 10:15:53 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

How many Intel based machines have ECC cache? My guess is not many. I think the Forbes article discusses one of the affected machines, saying that it crashed "four times over a few months." I agree that's bad, but it is nothing like what many seem to think is happening. As I understand it, not all (probably "few" would be an appropriate word, but I don't know any numbers -- as I recall Sun sells about a thousand servers a day, and if most or all of them were being affected, I'm sure we would have heard much more about the problem) machines are affected, and those that are affected crash infrequently. Furthermore, Sun is replacing affected processors free. As far as I know, Sun has not fingered the supplier of the affected cache, merely saying they are no longer a supplier. Does anybody know their identity? JMHO. Charles Tutt (TM)