Found in the wild – Fake intel Processors!

// March 11th, 2010 // Politics, Technology

Counterfeiting has been a lucrative business that has affected many industries worldwide. Copying and reproducing the design of famous brands and products have allowed many of these “pirates” reap billions of dollars in profit and cause billions of dollars in loss for the owners of these brands. The latest fiasco of counterfeiting or fake does not come from the fashion industry but is from the semiconductor business. Recently, there have been cases where customers who ordered Intel processors from Newegg received fake processors instead of the real deal. Newegg has issued a statement claiming innocence and blamed its supplier for the “fatal error”. Whatever the case may be, I suspect that the country that has been involved in fake eggs and tainted milk is once again shown the world that no matter how much money it may seem to have, it is far from overtaking the United States as a economy super house with incidents such as this.