Intel Sandy Bridge chipset design flaw, shipments stopped and recalls

We give Intel a major salute on taking their chip business in solid quality and transparency on product issues prior on protecting the chip-giant brand. Though we know that Intel’s revenue could badly hit with this announcement, but the company still takes the claims for a “silicon fix” for their new 6 Series chipset. Cougar Point, has been found to have a flaw, something to do with the SATA controller.
In some cases, the Serial-ATA (SATA) ports within the chipsets may degrade over time, potentially impacting the performance or functionality of SATA-linked devices such as hard disk drives and DVD-drives. The chipset is utilized in PCs with Intel’s latest Second Generation Intel Core processors, code-named Sandy Bridge.
To address this issue, Intel have stopped all shipments and a fix have been implemented on new deliveries and probably we can expect recalls for early shipments of Sandy Bridge processors. We would also speculate a delay on few announced or to be unveiled new devices running this chips, ooh, do we see early delays on new Macbooks?
So what’s the damage this design flaw on Intel, the company have already advising a $300 million hit on its revenue.
We’ve also seen an update on Engadget via Jimmy: “Intel customer service representative indicating that this recall only affects “some desktop boards based on Intel P67 chipset,” that the H67 chipset boards appear to not be affected, but that the company doesn’t have a comprehensive list yet.