Stephen Withers
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 09:48
IT Industry -
Market
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Non-functioning replicas of the Intel Core i7 processor have been delivered to customers of a well-known online retailer.
A small number of people appear to have received crude fakes instead of the genuine Intel Core i7 920 that they ordered and paid for.
The incident was originally reported by
HardOCP following a
post [language warning] in its user forums by a surprised Newegg customer.
A charitable explanation would be that the item was a dummy product intended for display purposes, and the boxes were inadvertently mixed. (You've noticed that almost all of those handsets on display at your local mobile phone shop are non-functional, haven't you?)
Judging by photos that have been posted online, the fakes are so crude that they look suspect even at low resolutions, though they may have been good enough to pass a casual inspection through the packaging.
A subsequent forum post claiming inside knowledge asserted that Newegg received around 300 fake units from a distributor.
How did Newegg and Intel respond? See
page 2.
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