Multiple choice general knowledge history

This company invested several hundred million dollars to replace the faulty chips to deal with floatin value errors

  1. Intel

  2. IBM

  3. AMD

  4. Samfron
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Explanation

Intel spent approximately $475 million in 1994-1995 to replace faulty Pentium processors affected by the FDIV bug. This floating-point division error occurred in rare cases and was discovered by a mathematician. The company initially downplayed the issue but eventually agreed to replace chips for any concerned customer, creating one of the most expensive hardware recalls in tech history. Neither IBM, AMD, nor 'Samfron' (likely a typo for Qualcomm or similar) faced this specific crisis.

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