Fake Intel Chips Disappoint Newegg Customers
Some people hoping to get a boost in PC performance recently got a rude surprise: the microprocessors they bought were not only not genuine Intel products–they weren’t even chips at all.
Intel (INTC) confirms that online retailer Newegg passed along some pretty crude facsimiles of the chip maker’s Core i7 920 microprocessors. According to reports and video links supplied by news sites such as HardOCP, the customers received a box (with some misspelled text) that contained a fake cooling fan, blank paper stapled together as a “manual” and a piece of plastic that looked vaguely like a chip.
“Intel is getting samples to inspect and until then we can say that everything in the package appears fake,” says Daniel Snyder, an Intel spokesman.
