Artifact Details

Title

Intel keychain

Catalog Number

102711135

Type

Physical object

Description

Printed on one side of keychain is "Intel Inside Pentium Processor". On the other side is printed "Bad companies are destroyed by crises; good companies survive them; great companies are improved by them. - Andy Grove, December 1994." The Pentium processors used in this keychain were defective: they contained the infamous "FDIV Bug," an error in the design of the chip that led to incorrect results when performing floating point arithmetic under certain circumstances. The error became a major public relations problem for Intel who offered to replace the defective Pentiums free of charge.

Date

1994

Manufacturer

Intel

Dimensions

overall: 1/4 in x 4 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in

Category

Ephemera/other

Credit

Gift of Julie Neff

Lot Number

X5148.2009