Intel, finding a chip flaw, expects to lose $1 billion

San Francisco: Intel said on Monday it had stopped shipping a new chipset after discovering a design flaw that might cause 5 percent of the chips to fail over the next three to five years. The loss in revenue and the fixing of the nearly half a million laptop and desktop computers that contain the chipset are expected to cost Intel $1 billion. Intel said that the Series 6, or Cougar Point,