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To: herb will who wrote (49184)	7/27/2001 11:40:35 AM
From: Windsock	Respond to of 275872

Re:"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." Remarked chips are overclocked and remarked with a higher speed. They are falsely sold as Intel original parts. Intel has been chasing the manufacturers and sellers of counterfeit parts since at least the early 90s. The counterfeit parts often surface when they are returned to Intel for warranty. Canceling a dealer who sells counterfeit Intel parts is totally legitimate. It is nonsense for Via to whine that a dealer who sells Via C3 units should be allowed to sell counterfeit Intel parts. Of course thievery and counterfeiting are very much a part of Via's culture.

To: herb will who wrote (49184)	7/27/2001 2:46:30 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Herb, These are two different stories. One is directed against Via and is recent, the other is old news. I have no quarrel against Intel policing re-branded chips. The trouble is that chips can be re-branded so well by good counterfeiters that they look like genuine parts and they wokr like genuin parts as Intel for a time was forced to sell high speed parts as low speed because their bin splits were making very good fast parts. That meant that they had to undermark fast chips and sell them as slow parts to avoid losing that share to AMD. Now if the parts are truly fast parts that Intel falsely marked as slow parts, then who is the counterfeiter? Bill