Monday, March 4th 2013
Intel Haswell Platform Faces USB 3.0 Issue: Report
According to a Hardware.info report that cites an internal Intel document circulated to partners, the company's upcoming Haswell platform faces an erratum that could be fairly noticeable by end-users. The problem is confined to the platform's integrated USB 3.0 SuperSpeed host controller.
A system based on Haswell platform, when waking from S3 sleep mode, will experience issues with devices connected through USB 3.0. If you have open documents, videos, or music playing off of a USB 3.0 storage device, applications accessing that data could freeze, needing you to reopen them. For example, a PDF document you have open on Adobe Reader could display a blank page after waking up from S3, needing you to reopen the document and/or Adobe Reader. The bug doesn't cause any loss of data, but could be an irritant. An Intel representative told the source that launch of the Haswell platform is on-track for mid-2013.
Source:
Hardware.info
A system based on Haswell platform, when waking from S3 sleep mode, will experience issues with devices connected through USB 3.0. If you have open documents, videos, or music playing off of a USB 3.0 storage device, applications accessing that data could freeze, needing you to reopen them. For example, a PDF document you have open on Adobe Reader could display a blank page after waking up from S3, needing you to reopen the document and/or Adobe Reader. The bug doesn't cause any loss of data, but could be an irritant. An Intel representative told the source that launch of the Haswell platform is on-track for mid-2013.
24 Comments on Intel Haswell Platform Faces USB 3.0 Issue: Report
Unfortunately I was a victim of cougar point B2-B3 revision issue last year.
Companies are always in a hurry
my Nikon D600 has oil spots issue
my Nikon D800 had crash-firmware issues
my new PC had displayPort boot issues
I wish companies had time to test deeper and deeper their products
BEFORE they hit the shelves
www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2013/02/28/intel-haswell-e/1
But, as someone so eloquently said on another forum....I want a new shiney. :D
"Click save, application error". I'm sure there is some way of pinning it on Microsoft down the line
The current mentality in the PC industry and perhaps other industries is "ship it now, fix it later if we are forced to". Many people just accept the product defects as if they are no big deal. As a result the hardware and software makers continue to rush crapware to market for great profits as they don't need to spend the time and money to properly validate their products. It's about as unscrupulous as you can get and not get convicted for fraud.
For Intel to be circulating a notice of this CPU issue suggests they don't know how to fix the defect which should be a great concern to anyone planning to use devices on their USB 3.0 with Haswell.
I have to wonder if this is all it does, for example the firmware on the SSD's wasn't supposed to affect users really, nor was the miscalculation in the CPU. It is troubling they found such an obvious error yet have no fix for it before release.
This is the first I've heard of this though. Last I saw Intel's official position was that IVB-E is slated for later this year.
I hope it can be fixed via software or firmware update.
Not cool :(
Intel can only get away with it because they're so big and don't have competition. What other flaws do these chips have that they're hiding?
BTW, USB issues have been dogging me since the UEFI release, so no, this isn't that big of a bug, really...since any current board has had it or still has it in some form or another.
Anyway, these make the situation worse, not better and show just how entrenched the problem is. :shadedshu
Didn't Intel generally recall the faulty parts though? I remember they did that for the faulty sata ports a while back when Sandy Bridge was released, avoiding a scandal.