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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.'"

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  1. Yes...!!! by yogix · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Finally I can make that P4 Beowulf cluster... w00t!

    And run Linux on it...

    Regards,
    YoGiX

  2. How long will the U.S. roll over and take this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The U.S. is constantly getting screwed over. Ultimately, trade agreements are inevitably in favor of someone else. Either a handfull of U.S. policy makers are just profiteering from these lopsided agreements, or they are just blind. We are constantly backstabbed and taken advantage of by amoral foreign powers. They do nothing to enforce their own economic laws, and do nothing to stop rampant piracy and corruption as long as it is hurting the U.S. economically. It may not be guns and bombs, but it is warfare.

    You resident /. denizens that are blind haters of the U.S, of democracy, of capitalism, I invite you to examine every trade agreement in the last 25 years between the U.S. and non-western countries. Study the long term effects of who is coming out on top. I think you'll be pleased to note that its not the U.S.

    Ridicule isolationism if you will, but there will come a time that we wished we had spent less effort on "globalization" and more on taking care of ourselves. I can live without all the poor quality cheap asian trinkets made by slaves. America's slow but steady move away from internal industry and agriculture, its inability to negotiate favorable trade agreements, and its unwillingness to take a hardline against economic undermining by foriegn powers will all prove to be costly mistakes.