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AMD Chip Fraud Delays Release of New Chipset
rocketman768 writes "According to internetnews.com a workshop in Taipei has been re-labeling nearly a million AMD Athlon XPs. It seems AMD is spending more time investigating this than on releasing their new Alchemy chipset which boasts direct transfer of video from digital video recorders to portable players without the need to transcode through a PC."
I guess noone noticed their chips were manafactured by "Advanced Moocro Devices".
they're just doing the overclocking for you! saves the customer time, really.
It seems AMD is spending more time investigating this than on releasing their new Alchemy chipset
Yes, I'm sure they've taken their fab plant workers and assigned them to detective jobs instead.
It seems AMD is spending more time investigating this than on releasing their new Alchemy chipset which boasts direct transfer of video from digital video recorders to portable players without the need to transcode through a PC."
Can I make a wild guess, rocketman768, from the flow of your logic that you are also a press spokesman for the Democratic Party?
AMD have a "jack of all trades" type workforce. Instead of everyone working on different projects and getting lots of things done slowly, they all work on the same thing at the same time to get a few things accomplished really fast.
So yes the whole company stopped working on releasing the new chipset and are now all working on the investigating the re-labeling.
"Try coming to work one day, walk into the Shop and Agent Smith, flips a Badge and ask you to step into the Boss's Office, for an Interview."
And now "CygnusXII" works for the Feds.
Just wait till next week when they have to repaint the Fab building, and the parking lot need re-striping too..
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You mean the numbers on those chips don't designate their clock speed?!?
"What's the frequency Kenneth?"
But does the MHz really matter that much?
It's not the amount, it's what you do with 'em.
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
But it's a lot easier to catch someone who sells you a 2.2GHz chip that actually only runs at 1.8
Unless you do as PCChips did with some cheap motherboard processor combos we ordered, the BIOS boots up and says AMD 1200+ CPU as well as the big sticker on the chipset, but removing the 'warranty void if removed' sticker on the CPU heatsink and inspecting shows 850MHz Duron just like CPU-Z does. From the same people that brought us the 'fake cache' chips. I guess fraud is OK in China.
Shove quarters in its butt and it sprays money from its tits?
There may be moo to it, but that's what I herd.
Now AMD will be spending more time investigating misinformation by Slashdot than on releasing their new Alchemy chipset.
Where will it end? Won't somebody think of the engineers?
AMD has even filed a patent for it. They are calling it Enterprise Level Preemptive Multitasking.
Oh yeah! Clearly AMD's engineers are tied up doing this investigation...
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rocketman768 writes "According to internetnews.com a workshop in Taipei has been re-labeling nearly a million AMD Athlon XPs. It seems AMD is spending more time investigating this than on releasing their new Alchemy chipset which boasts direct transfer of video from digital video recorders to portable players without the need to transcode through a PC."
Yes rocketman768, AMD has one guy that designs chipsets and manages their legal department. While his skills are incredible, he has not been managing his time well lately. This has resulted in the Alchemy being delayed. I will forward your message to HR and let them know about your concerns.
Your headline is a display of intellectualism that can only be rivaled by an autistic sea monkey. For that, the Internet thanks you.
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Oh, wait, that's not a "cash cow"; that's a "cow cache".
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