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2006 incidents
3 Bumpgate
Bumpgate (also known as Nvidiagate) was a scandal where Nvidia and ATI Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) made from 2005-2010 were prone to high failure rates because of a design flaw that caused…
McDonald's Japan malware attack
In 2006, McDonald's in collaboration with Coca-Cola ran a promotion in Japan that lasted for 1 month. During this promotion, 10,000 winners obtained a USB-stick MP3 player. When Japanese winners…
PlayStation 3 "Yellow Light of Death"
Due to a likely defect in the 90nm graphic processing units (GPUs) of early PlayStation 3s, these models are extremely prone to GPU failures.[citation needed]