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."

Comments

Yea

[kaiser423]

That's something they have to be pretty agressive about. They're starting to get a really good name among the PHB's and average joe's. So, they have to really fight to keep their reputation growing. Their new reputation is almost to the point where it's a selling point. They just need to keep it there, and then they have a cash cow.

I need some magic glasses too

[Magickcat]

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."

Funny, I didn't read that or infer that from the article. Perhaps you have special glasses that let you read invisible ink?

Re:I need some magic glasses too

[rlsnyder]

I second that thought. Does the submittor really think AMD takes their engineers and sends them out in the field to do legal and investigative work?

I *think* AMD has more than one department.

Is editorializing necessary on every darn news story?

Bad for overclockers

[grahamsz]

Now AMD will be forced to investigate new ways of preventing chips being overclocked to stop this from happening again.

Re:Bad for overclockers

[the_mad_poster]

Doubtful. With the cost of fabs, it would probably be less expensive just to raid and shut down the illegal "producers" than to try and work out elaborate protection schemes.

Remember - implementing half-assed software hacks to "protect" content on a CD is relatively cheap compared to the cost of imlpementing something similar to prevent overclocking in a complex computer chip.

cat /proc/cpuinfo

[Anonymous Coward]

Wouldn't the BIOS detect this and display it right when a system boots up, you would think even a not-so-clever user would start to notice that the numbers on the package and the numbers on the screen don't match up

A simple cat /proc/cpuinfo on a GNU/Linux system for experienced users should expose the farce too, correct me if I'm wrong.

Re:cat /proc/cpuinfo

[0racle]

...you would think even a not-so-clever user would start to notice...
I would doubt it. To most people the bios output is just a bunch of text, as long as there is text and it doesn't stop, the system is working. Most people don't look at what it says.

Somebody please read the f___ing article

[Anonymous Coward]

Submitter? Editor? Anyone read this? It said "shadowed" and "put a damper on." There is no assertion anywhere that the fraud caused a chipset delay.

Author didn't understand story, made up headline

[Somegeek]

"The news has put a damper on the release of Alchemy, the company's new processor.".

The author evidently thought this quote meant that AMD was slowing down the release of the processor, instead of realizing that it just means that it dulled some of AMD's excitement over the new product release. The story even states that AMD is already selling "large quantities" of the chipset. Sounds like they are releasing it just fine, no delays.