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."

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Re:Is this

[Gentlewhisper]

Erm...

When a chip is labelled, it is usually a cheaper slower chip remarked as a faster chip.

Now, when this chip is sold and fails/fizzles/burns up, its AMD's reputation on the line.

This has no parallels with copyrights and the like. AMD is doing what it must to protect its name and its profits (doh!)

Alchemy

[kinema]

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

AMD's Alchemy line isn't a mainboard chipset it is their brand of 32 bit embedded MIPS SoC (system on a chip) devices. The Au1200 is the newest in the family targeted for use in digital media players like PVRs. What makes the Au1200 perfect for media players is it's hardware video codecs that support MPEG1, 2, 4 (including DivX) and WMV9.

How is this anything New?

[CygnusXII]

This just shows that AMD has reached a point Intel was at 5 or 6 years ago. I worked for a hardware reseller, that got burned by a lot of hotwired, Pentium II's. It was so bad that we were raided by the FEDs'. That freaked me out. 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.