Unboxing the Fake Intel Core i7-920

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Don McKenzie

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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...


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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...
Click to expand...
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.
 
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.
Click to expand...
Called incoming inspection here in the colonies :)

And the they were probably the first employees fired
when the economy tanked.
 
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
Click to expand...
as bad as engineering!

--
Tim Wescott
Control system and signal processing consulting
www.wescottdesign.com
 
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
Click to expand...
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.
 
Em 13/3/2010 00:08, Tim Wescott escreveu:
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!

No... incoming inspection is old fashioned because you know we've this
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ISO 9k certificates on file and we only buy from other certified folks...


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"Cesar Rabak" <csrabak@bol.com.br> wrote in message
news:hnjmgj$e7h$1@news.eternal-september.org...
No... incoming inspection is old fashioned because you know we've this
ISO 9k certificates on file and we only buy from other certified folks...
Click to expand...
Sadly a very real misconception.

MrT.
 
me here skrev:
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.
Click to expand...
Incoming inspection might not do the job.
I met someone who bought a cheap 8 GB (or whatever) iPod in China,
and when back home, he started loading it up.

Memory was full after 128 MB...

BR
Ulf Samuelsson
 
"Ulf Samuelsson" <ulf@a-t-m-e-l.com> wrote in message
news:hnmepa$j0e$2@speranza.aioe.org...
Incoming inspection might not do the job.
I met someone who bought a cheap 8 GB (or whatever) iPod in China,
and when back home, he started loading it up.

Memory was full after 128 MB...
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Er, isn't that the point of incoming inspection! (acceptance testing)
"Inspection" doesn't mean a quick visual for obvious physical damage you
realise?

MrT.
 
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