A software update for Intel wireless hardware is faulty and can hog PC memory, Intel acknowledged Thursday. A fix is due on Friday.
The problem affects the Intel PROSet software version 10.5, Amy Martin, an Intel spokeswoman, said. The PROSet software accompanies Intel's drivers that run the company's wireless hardware on PCs.
"One of the processes used by the Intel PROSet software was not releasing the (file) handles correctly, which caused more and more memory to be used by the process," Martin said. As a result, a PC slows down, she said.
Intel has made a fix available to PC makers and plans to post it to the Intel Web site on Friday, Martin said.
Intel recommends that users of PCs equipped with Intel wireless hardware install the latest version of the company's software. A telltale sign that the Intel hardware is present is the "Centrino" sticker on laptops. Some PC makers will ship the updated software on new PCs and make it available to customers with driver updates, Martin said.
It seems like the bigger story here is how this bug made it through Intel's Quality Assurance and then laptop vendors QA. It seems like a pretty obvious bug for a pretty common piece of hardware. There have to be millions of Centrino laptops manufactured. Is this another example of companies trying to do things on the cheap, only to bite the consumers?
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