Intel – Roumazeilles.net

Fake Intels on sale

Yves Roumazeilles — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:00:37 +0000

I already knew that there were fake electronic components of all kinds (don’t ask, but I work in the electronics industry and my own employer has sad stories to tell – but wouldn’t ), but I believed that this was limited to small cheap components. I was wrong.

The US retailer NewEgg indicated this week that they found in their stock what appears to be fake Intel Core i7 920 CPUs. Actually, they would have sold a small number of them before becoming aware of the issue.

What a world!

Intel SSD has big problems?

Yves Roumazeilles — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:02:44 +0000

Intel X25-M (SSD)

This is what is strongly suggested by an article published in The Register indicating that the Santa Clara giant would have suspended the shipments of its 2nd generation of X25-M SSD drives, because of a data corruption issue. We are waiting for a firmware update to correct this problem from what appears to be a tremendous product with low power, high performance and nice price.

Caution seems justified here.

Phenom, incompatible with existing AM2 motherboards?

Yves Roumazeilles — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:22:47 +0000

This is more or less what has to be concluded from reading the articles currently published about the compatibility (more supposed than real) between the new AMD 4-core processor and the existing AM2-socket motherboards. But it seems that AMD will have to be a little more patient.

This is not a very good omen for the financial come-back of Intel’s main competitor that is still depending a lot of this year’s launch of 3- and 4-core processors.

Source: Tom’s hardware.