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Dishonest Intel OEM Engineers To Get Five Years Behind Bars
The Taiwan Criminal Investigation Bureau has been doing a bit of investigating and has arrested four engineers working for Intel's OEM partners (names not disclosed) for flogging Engineering Sample (ES) processors on eBay. ES processors are intended strictly for qualification testing purposes for development of new products by OEM's and are only loaned to them under strict non-disclosure agreements, hence putting these on eBay is illegal. The Bureau searched the suspects houses last month and found 178 ES CPU's, worth around $800,000. Note that this value seems to be somewhat high, as it would make each CPU worth around $4,500. We will update this article if new values come to light. Also, this is not a new operation that has been busted, since the suspects had admitted to selling around 500 ES CPU's since 2009. For their efforts, the fab four now face five years in prison.
It should be noted for anyone contemplating the purchase of such dodgy CPU's on eBay or similar places, that they may be overstressed and contain faults, due to the intensive and sometimes destructive testing they go through. Source: TechEYE Last edited by qubit; Jan 3, 2012 at 06:38 PM. |
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Qubit your getting lazy, it should read "don't do it, kids"
All in all though, these guys knew what they were selling was illegal and now they have to face consequences for their actions.
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Great, except the Chinese companies give away 1,000's of ES CPUs to their staff that are sold on the grey market in China...
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2nd News story i've read completely with out skimming in 2012... hehehe keep up the good work guys!
I just don't see these guys making a whole lot of money out of this? Do they know 4 guys that make motherboards for such chips? I can see them make some money, but i doubt they could sale all of those chips before launch. But if they wait until after launch and sale them.. then maybe
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I have had quite a few of these grey market chips I never saw any faults with them. In fact my i3 560ES clocked quite well.
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Oh duh! I kept looking at that phrase and it just didn't look right - now I know why.
Thanks, fixed.
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My friend still has my X3430 ES chip and it did 4Ghz stable for some time now.
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great chips they are
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btw people, 178 CPU's at $800,000 makes them around $4500, which seems unlikely, so I've updated the article to reflect this.
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Depends who is buying them. I know certain people who sold pre-release 945ES chips for almost double retail. I also know for a fact that ES XE chips from Intel would likely fetch that.
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Someone should remind them not to pick up the soap when it slips from their hand.
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Haha !!!!
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I have a Xeon ES X5550... no problems with it... what is wrong to sell chips, with no warranty for enthusiasts... hell it is china
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Unless I've missed something, I believe this to be correct.
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I am really curious as to what company it could be. There are so many around here. I'll ask around tomorrow and see if I can find out. Honestly, after having taught English at Benq, FSP Group, Delta and Unimicron(they do pcb boards for many companies like Apple), I can see why these guys would try it. Most of the engineers here work 12 to 15 hour days and are paid about $1200 to $1800US a month.
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Intawestin.
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Greedy much? If your an Intel Engineer you aren't hurting for money. Enjoy your cell, just don't let Bubba enjoy you.
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These were not Intel employees rather at OEM partners like Acer or HP or a hundred(s) others that make products with Intel CPUs.
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