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Remarked Celerons Sold As P4s

Posted by Zonk on from the interesting-marketing dept.

Lam1969 writes "Sumner Lemon reports that a Chinese company, Shenzhen Chuanghui Electronics Co., is remarking Celeron chips as Pentium 4s and supplying software to mask the chips' real pedigree from operating systems. From the article : 'The remarked processors Chuanghui sells are actually 1.7-GHz Celeron chips and are currently available for $78 each, including a motherboard, in quantities of 100 or more, said James Zhan, a company representative named online as a contact for potential buyers. By comparison, Intel sells the real thing for $401 in 1,000-unit quantities without a motherboard, according to the company's most recent price list.'"

6 of 273 comments (clear)

  1. AMD Power! by Zebadias · · Score: 5, Funny

    No wonder those AMD64's are wipping the P4's!!

    Zeb

  2. Re:Bizarre quote... by broggyr · · Score: 5, Funny
    you're Chinese Off-shorers are loosing their credibility!
    You are Chineese Off-shorers are loosing their credibility! What you say?

    I didn't know it needed to be tightened anyway

    --
    Irony? Yea, it's like goldy and bronzy, only it's made of iron!
  3. Let's not be too hard on them. by zenmojodaddy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps it was just because they find it easier to say 'Pentium' than 'Cereron'.

  4. Silly Asians by carguy84 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Next thing you know the Chinese are going to be making knock-off designer labels and cheap knock off electronics...oh wait.

  5. Re:Great stuff! by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 3, Funny
    Why don't you just see what hardware Microsoft has to offer you for your evangelical services?

    IBM dual 2.0GHz Xeon workstation w/ HW SCSI RAID 0/1/5 for sale

    Is that a link to an example, or just an unfortunate coincidence?

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    Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
  6. Re:No attempt to hide ? by thparker · · Score: 4, Funny
    IANAL but facilitating a crime (very obviously here), is itself a crime in most of the countries, AFAIK.

    Is anything a crime in China? I mean, apart from free speech?