When volume shipments began in earnest in March 1981, approximately 20 percent of all Apple IIIs were dead on arrival because chips fell out of sockets during shipment.
Intel intc (nasdaq: intc - news - people) showed off notebooks from NEC and Toshiba tosbf (nasdaq: tosbf - news - people) equipped with the new power-saving Pentium IIIs and said that other companies--including Fujitsu and Sony sne (nyse: sne - news - people)--will also probably use them.