CA - Chip Bugs Hobble Toshiba Laptops

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Title: Chip Bugs Hobble Toshiba Laptops CALIFORNIA (April 26) : IBM Corp confirmed that it has uncovered a design problem involving processor packages using the company's 400 MHz Celeron and 400 MHz Pentium II mobile chips that effectively made the chips unusable.

The problem was brought to Intel's attention in late February after buyers of Toshiba America Inc notebooks began complaining to the Irvine, California, PC maker about CPU failures.

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