Tuesday, January 3rd 2012
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 $4,500. We will update this article if new values come to light. Also, this is not a new operation that has been busted, since the suspects had admitted to selling around 500 ES CPU's since 2009. For their efforts, the fab four now face five years in prison.
It should be noted for anyone contemplating the purchase of such dodgy CPU's on eBay or similar places, that they may be overstressed and contain faults, due to the intensive and sometimes destructive testing they go through.
Source:
TechEYE
It should be noted for anyone contemplating the purchase of such dodgy CPU's on eBay or similar places, that they may be overstressed and contain faults, due to the intensive and sometimes destructive testing they go through.
29 Comments on Dishonest Intel OEM Engineers To Get Five Years Behind Bars
www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=157125
www.techpowerup.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2494910&postcount=27
All in all though, these guys knew what they were selling was illegal and now they have to face consequences for their actions.
I just don't see these guys making a whole lot of money out of this? Do they know 4 guys that make motherboards for such chips? :rolleyes: I can see them make some money, but i doubt they could sale all of those chips before launch. But if they wait until after launch and sale them.. then maybe
Intel feeling guilty for not selling well 999$ flagship crap?
Unless I've missed something, I believe this to be correct.
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.
So, what pro clockers have been missing lately?
:banghead:
:roll:
if you actually read the article you'll see this has nothing to do with Intel employees.