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The problems that have beset Intel with its i820 (Camino) chipset became compounded evermore today as the firm announced it was recalling motherboards with defective memory translator hub (MTH) parts.

Intel has put aside a sum believed to be in the order of hundreds of millions of dollars and is offering a "new lamps for old" replacement system which uses Rambus memory instead. It is also, apparently, offering to populate such boards with Rambus RIMMs, which is one way of fulfilling its contract with the memtech firm, we guess.

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