At this point, Intel acknowledged the floating-point flaw, but claimed that it was not serious and would not affect most users. Intel offered to replace processors to users who could prove that they were affected. However, although most independent estimates found that the bug would have a very limited impact on most users, it caused significant negative press for the company. During a 2019 talk, while reflecting on development of Quake, John Romero described how frequently and persistently this bug could be reproduced by Michael Abrash. Abrash spent hours tracking down exact conditions needed to produce the bug, which would result in parts of a game level appearing unexpectedly when viewed from certain camera angles. IBM paused the sale of PCs containing Intel CPUs, and Intel's stock price decreased significantly. The motive behind IBM's decision was questioned by some in the industry; IBM produced the PowerPC CPUs at the time, and potentially stood to benefit from any reputational damage to the Pentium or Intel as a company. However, the decision led to corporate buyers of PC equipment demanding replacements of existing Pentium CPUs, and soon afterwards other PC manufacturers began offering "no questions asked" replacements of flawed Pentium chips.
at this point intel acknowledged the floating-point flaw but claimed that it was not serious and would not affect most users intel offered to replace processors to users who could prove that they were affected however although most independent estimates found that the bug would have a very limited impact on most users it caused significant negative press for the company during a 2019 talk while reflecting on development of quake john romero described how frequently and persistently this bug could be reproduced by michael abrash abrash spent hours tracking down exact conditions needed to produce the bug which would result in parts of a game level appearing unexpectedly when viewed from certain camera angles ibm paused the sale of pcs containing intel cpus and intel's stock price decreased significantly the motive behind ibm's decision was questioned by some in the industry; ibm produced the powerpc cpus at the time and potentially stood to benefit from any reputational damage to the pentium or intel as a company however the decision led to corporate buyers of pc equipment demanding replacements of existing pentium cpus and soon afterwards other pc manufacturers began offering "no questions asked" replacements of flawed pentium chips