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AMD Chip Fraud Delays Release of New Chipset

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-cricket dept.

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."

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  1. Re:cat /proc/cpuinfo by canadiangoose · · Score: 5, Informative
    My chip is an Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton) overclocked to 2.2GHz on a 200MHz bus, and this is what shows up on my system:
    Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=302 apic_tack=1 devfs=mount
    Initializing CPU#0
    PID hash table entries: 2048 (order 11: 16384 bytes)
    Detected 2204.860 MHz processor.
    ......
    ......
    Calibrating delay loop... 4358.14 BogoMIPS
    ......
    ......
    CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
    CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
    CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
    CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
    CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000020
    Intel machine check architecture supported.
    Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
    CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ stepping 00
    --
    Never eat more than you can lift -- Miss Piggy
  2. Re:AMD by FRiC · · Score: 5, Informative

    The article refers to xbitlabs which refers to Sin Chew Daily, which isn't even a Taiwanese newspaper. I searched Taiwanese sites and the most recent AMD related bust only found 60,000 pcs of remarked chips, not a million as reported.

  3. Re:AMD by plover · · Score: 4, Informative
    You're not thinking like a big-time ripoff artist (which is not a bad thing!)

    They could have structured their purchases using legitimate motherboard companies as intermediaries, or they could have set up their own front company to hide the purchase. Just because you've never heard of Panashiba doesn't mean AMD's sales rep won't sell to them.

    Possibly they used a Chinese or Russian firm as a cutout. Both of those countries are large enough that a million chips not hitting the market might go unnoticed. The order could also have come through a corrupt government official from a smaller country, such as Cuba, under the pretext of a military or governmental order.

    They could even have hijacked a freighter or cargo containers carrying product. Computer chips long ago replaced lipstick as the highest dollar value per truck for hijacking. They have a tremendous resale value.

    We may never know, but it sure would be interesting to find out.

    --
    John