Unboxing the Fake Intel Core i7-920
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From: Don McKenzie on 12 Mar 2010 16:32 Tuesday March 9, 2010 Unboxing the Fake Intel Core i7-920 By now, you've probably seen many of the homemade videos from people who ordered an Intel Core i7-920 processor from Newegg.com and received a bogus processor and hunk of plastic shaped like a fan. Newegg has thrown supplier IPEX Infotech of Freemont [corrected] California under the bus for this fiasco; in a statement released to Information Week, the retailer said, "We have since come to discover the CPUs were counterfeit and are terminating our relationship with this supplier." http://www.gearlog.com/2010/03/hands_on_fake_intel_core_i7-92_1.php Cheers Don... -- Don McKenzie Site Map: http://www.dontronics.com/sitemap E-Mail Contact Page: http://www.dontronics.com/email Web Camera Page: http://www.dontronics.com/webcam No More Damn Spam: http://www.dontronics.com/spam Product Sellout: 15% OFF 4DSystems OLED Displays & modules. http://www.dontronics-shop.com/micro-oled.html
From: me here on 12 Mar 2010 19:06 Don McKenzie wrote: > Tuesday March 9, 2010 > Unboxing the Fake Intel Core i7-920 > > By now, you've probably seen many of the homemade videos from people > who ordered an Intel Core i7-920 processor from Newegg.com and > received a bogus processor and hunk of plastic shaped like a fan. > Newegg has thrown supplier IPEX Infotech of Freemont [corrected] > California under the bus for this fiasco; in a statement released to > Information Week, the retailer said, "We have since come to discover > the CPUs were counterfeit and are terminating our relationship with > this supplier." > > http://www.gearlog.com/2010/03/hands_on_fake_intel_core_i7-92_1.php > > Cheers Don... That's a good one. Someone somewhere must be laughing their heads off on that scam, and driving a slighly more upmarket car. Be interesting to see if they catch the culprits. Pretty unlikely. I suppose there's a vacancy at Newegg for a store receivals officer now.
From: Jim Stewart on 12 Mar 2010 20:29 me here wrote: > Don McKenzie wrote: > >> Tuesday March 9, 2010 >> Unboxing the Fake Intel Core i7-920 >> >> By now, you've probably seen many of the homemade videos from people >> who ordered an Intel Core i7-920 processor from Newegg.com and >> received a bogus processor and hunk of plastic shaped like a fan. >> Newegg has thrown supplier IPEX Infotech of Freemont [corrected] >> California under the bus for this fiasco; in a statement released to >> Information Week, the retailer said, "We have since come to discover >> the CPUs were counterfeit and are terminating our relationship with >> this supplier." >> >> http://www.gearlog.com/2010/03/hands_on_fake_intel_core_i7-92_1.php >> >> Cheers Don... > > That's a good one. > > Someone somewhere must be laughing their heads off on that scam, and > driving a slighly more upmarket car. > > Be interesting to see if they catch the culprits. > > Pretty unlikely. > > I suppose there's a vacancy at Newegg for a store receivals officer now. Called incoming inspection here in the colonies (: And the they were probably the first employees fired when the economy tanked.
From: Tim Wescott on 12 Mar 2010 21:08 Jim Stewart wrote: > me here wrote: >> Don McKenzie wrote: >> >>> Tuesday March 9, 2010 >>> Unboxing the Fake Intel Core i7-920 >>> >>> By now, you've probably seen many of the homemade videos from people >>> who ordered an Intel Core i7-920 processor from Newegg.com and >>> received a bogus processor and hunk of plastic shaped like a fan. >>> Newegg has thrown supplier IPEX Infotech of Freemont [corrected] >>> California under the bus for this fiasco; in a statement released to >>> Information Week, the retailer said, "We have since come to discover >>> the CPUs were counterfeit and are terminating our relationship with >>> this supplier." >>> >>> http://www.gearlog.com/2010/03/hands_on_fake_intel_core_i7-92_1.php >>> >>> Cheers Don... >> >> That's a good one. >> >> Someone somewhere must be laughing their heads off on that scam, and >> driving a slighly more upmarket car. >> >> Be interesting to see if they catch the culprits. >> >> Pretty unlikely. >> >> I suppose there's a vacancy at Newegg for a store receivals officer now. > > Called incoming inspection here in the colonies (: > > And the they were probably the first employees fired > when the economy tanked. > Incoming inspection is just an expense, after all. Heavens, it's almost as bad as engineering! -- Tim Wescott Control system and signal processing consulting www.wescottdesign.com
From: keithr on 13 Mar 2010 07:56 Tim Wescott wrote: > Jim Stewart wrote: >> me here wrote: >>> Don McKenzie wrote: >>> >>>> Tuesday March 9, 2010 >>>> Unboxing the Fake Intel Core i7-920 >>>> >>>> By now, you've probably seen many of the homemade videos from people >>>> who ordered an Intel Core i7-920 processor from Newegg.com and >>>> received a bogus processor and hunk of plastic shaped like a fan. >>>> Newegg has thrown supplier IPEX Infotech of Freemont [corrected] >>>> California under the bus for this fiasco; in a statement released to >>>> Information Week, the retailer said, "We have since come to discover >>>> the CPUs were counterfeit and are terminating our relationship with >>>> this supplier." >>>> >>>> http://www.gearlog.com/2010/03/hands_on_fake_intel_core_i7-92_1.php >>>> >>>> Cheers Don... >>> >>> That's a good one. >>> >>> Someone somewhere must be laughing their heads off on that scam, and >>> driving a slighly more upmarket car. >>> >>> Be interesting to see if they catch the culprits. >>> >>> Pretty unlikely. >>> >>> I suppose there's a vacancy at Newegg for a store receivals officer now. >> >> Called incoming inspection here in the colonies (: >> >> And the they were probably the first employees fired >> when the economy tanked. >> > Incoming inspection is just an expense, after all. Heavens, it's almost > as bad as engineering! > I spent 2 weeks in Japan once caused by the customer having incoming inspection where my employer did not. Out of the 60 PCs we shipped, they rejected 50, everything from memory parity errors (remember those?), bad hard disks to a keyboard that had two full stops and no comma. How many heads rolled from that fiasco? Exactly none. Did we start doing incoming inspection? No, we just sold to less choosy customers.
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