Intel adds $200 million to motherboard bill

Intel appended another $200 million to the cost of its motherboard recall, bringing the total to about $253 million. Intel is eliminating the memory translator hub, the cause of the recall, and giving users a new motherboard stocked with more expensive Rambus memory. The chipmaker's losses, however, are more than offset by the sale of Micron stock that Intel reportedly bought to instigate the making of Rambus memory. Micron has nearly ended the production of Rambus memory, which had accounted for about 7 percent of its output, and now promotes the competing DRAM.

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