@kenshirriff I remember this happening.
There was this odd little movie Intel put together that was advertainment for the whole project; for some reason, I saw it at the local science museum on the big IMAX screen when I was, what, eight?
The plot, hilariously, revolved around aliens trying to disrupt human technological progress by... Messing with the chip blueprint before it's fabricated. They're caught out by the hero-kids who save the day.
We always thought it was a wild coincidence that IRL the chip went into production with a significant design flaw analogous to the one in the fiction.