Fake Intel Core i7 Processor reported in US

[cmsajith]

Intel Investigating Sale of Fake Core I7 Chip - PCWorld

 

[anm]

must be a great diy guy who made the fake

 

[venkatcr]

I was wondering how someone could fake a processor. When i read the article, I realised it was a dud. Must be just a aluminium piece smartly made to look like a processor.

A processor needs a billion dollar plant. It at all anyone can fake a working processor, it will be either one of Intel or AMD. No one else has the physical capability of manufacturing a working processor with multiple cores. Because of the exorbitant entry costs, this is one industry that the pirates can never contaminate.

Cheers

 

[sachin_k5]

I was wondering how someone could fake a processor. When i read the article, I realised it was a dud. Must be just a aluminium piece smartly made to look like a processor.

A processor needs a billion dollar plant. It at all anyone can fake a working processor, it will be either one of Intel or AMD. No one else has the physical capability of manufacturing a working processor with multiple cores. Because of the exorbitant entry costs, this is one industry that the pirates can never contaminate.

Cheers

hmmm...Maybe someone took some old 80486 processors and sold them as Core i7. Windows vista runs so slow nobody will realise its a 486 processor :lol:

 

[gobble]

I was wondering how someone could fake a processor. When i read the article, I realised it was a dud. Must be just a aluminium piece smartly made to look like a processor.

A processor needs a billion dollar plant. It at all anyone can fake a working processor, it will be either one of Intel or AMD. No one else has the physical capability of manufacturing a working processor with multiple cores. Because of the exorbitant entry costs, this is one industry that the pirates can never contaminate.

Cheers

Actually what is done is older cpus are remarked with newer series model numbers and sold at higher price ... or lower ghz are marked as higher ...

Cheers