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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (49169)	7/27/2001 10:41:15 AM
From: herb will	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Bill "I am looking for a local Indian news source" You are not looking hard enough. The problem Intel is having in India is with re-marked chips. Read the following article. Although it says that Intel did intimidate certain “Genuine Intel Dealers” in 1997 the present problem regards re-marked chips. Maxie just embellished the facts a shade that’s all.You will also be glad to know that the article says that AMD is gaining market share in India. By the way, how do you stand in the AMD winner and loser poll? Are you one of the ones that just love Jerry even though your stock has head south to Argentina? Anyway here’s the article. theitiq.com Intel Sacks Dealers For Selling Re-marked Chips Intel seems to have had enough with the business of re-marked chips. We had reported that the chip major was sending out squads to deal with those selling re-marked chips over the clocked variety. In a silent move, the chip major cancelled the GID (Genuine Intel Dealer) status, which is similar to the Intel Product Dealer of North America and eBN (Ebusiness network member) status, of about four dealers across the country. A prominent Bangalore-based GID was removed on Monday, according to sources in the GID camp in the City. We are not disclosing the names of the dealers in the best interest of the channel’s business. In early May 1997, Intel had warned and even sacked a few GIDs who were quoted in a prominent IT weekly as admitting to their plans to sell AMD-based machines. According to sources close to the latest episode, more GIDs may be removed. “In Bangalore alone, from the hundred-odd GIDs, at least 20 sell re-marked chips,” says our own Deep Throat. But others feel that this is only a warning from Intel. “Most of the dealers involved in the re-marked chip business are the big ones. Intel cannot afford to lose them since AMD is definitely growing from strength to strength in India,” observes DeepThroat’s friend. Intel has close to 2,500 GIDs in India, all of whom are advised to sell only boxed Intel products,. This attracts rebates and other incentives from Intel. As we reported earlier, there has been an influx of remarked Pentium III processors in the country. Intel has been issuing notices to its dealers. We give below a sample of the letter forwarded to us by a leading GID in town: Dear valued EbN member, Thank you for your continuous support on Intel products and services. We would like to draw your attention to the availability of remarked/overclocked Intel® Processors in the market today, where the processors' speed have been illegally altered. You should also remember that Intel WILL NOT provide warranty support to these processors. More importantly, your customers will not get the right product which will immensely lower system performance and reliability comes down. To ensure that you deliver quality systems, Intel urges you to build systems using Genuine Intel Boxed processors only, easily available through the authorized distributors located in your town. We also would like to keep you posted that Intel is in the process of initiating surprise visits and appropriate legal actions on those people who are involved in buying and selling of these remarked/overclocked Intel Processors business. We would like to take this opportunity to highlight the advantages of buying from Intel Authorized distributors & Channels. Apart from Warranty support for 3 years through the local depot and products that deliver quality performance, you also get the benefit of all Intel programs & rewards, which accrue to you on every purchase. We are glad to inform you that today Boxed processors are available to eBN Channel members — the latest Intel Pentium® 4 processor, Mobile processors, Intel Pentium® III and Intel Celeron® Processors. Once again, we would like to urge you to purchase through the right channels and deliver the best experience & performance to your customers. As we all know that good quality and prompt service are the key virtues that will help us retain our customers. Please make use of the utility software available in Intel website to win your customers by selling the Genuine products. The URL is as follows… <http://support.intel.com/support/processors> Also please feel free to contact me or any of our Channel Account Managers in your respective regions for details of authorized distributors. Happy selling!!! Thanking you, Yours truly,