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Notton All Chuwi had to say was "Our ODM sold us counterfeits", but "production error" would indicate conspiring with the ODM to change the part number in BIOS before it ever arrived at Chuwi warehouses. Chuwi trying to brush it under the rug with their lawyers is just further proof they fully knew what was happening. AMD should sue them. Reply
thesyndrome Notton said: All Chuwi had to say was "Our ODM sold us counterfeits", but "production error" would indicate conspiring with the ODM to change the part number in BIOS before it ever arrived at Chuwi warehouses. Chuwi trying to brush it under the rug with their lawyers is just further proof they fully knew what was happening. AMD should sue them. If Chuwi did that, then the ODM could potentially throw them under the bus if they have evidence that Chuwi intentionally requested for the forgery. As much as their statement rings false, from a legal perspective it's their best way to try and claim innocence without blaming anyone else who might make things worse for them, even despite the modified firmware making this seem intentional. To me, this is a very clear cut case of intentional forgery that was planned, and now they are scrambling to try and hide it and absolve themselves of intentional wrongdoing without stepping on another company's toes. Reply
hwertz Does anyone remember PC Chips? They were infamous for cloning other's motherboards, sometimes successfully, sometimes the board traces weren't QUITE as equal length so they'd have stability issues overclocking. But, also, they got caught putting fake cache chips on some boards (L2 cache back then was on-motherboard, and technically optional) then modifying the BIOS to claim it had like 512K L2 cache or whatever. The chips were just plastic. I dodged the bullet — I didn't end up with fake cache chips. I didn't run into any stability issues (partly because I had a 100mhz FSB CPU in a 133mhz FSB-capable motherboard…) And these Via chipsets were infamously buggy but Linux had workarounds so the only side effect of the chipset bugs was multiple lines in the bootup saying workarounds were being enabled. I did end up overclocking my AMD K62-450 from "100×4.5" to "112×4", the 12% increase in FSB boosted performance by close to 20% (knocked of wait states or something?). The CPU itself was shockingly non-overclockable, no post at 525mhz, very usntable at 500mhz, and "apprently stable until software crashed under load" even at some combo that got it to 475mhz. So stock CPU speed (technically 2mhz below stock?) but faster FSB it was! I've read the K6 and K6-2 branch predictor etc. did particularly well on gcc-generated code, all I can say is that thing ran about dead even with a 1ghz Pentium 3, I ran it for a rather long time and it ran well. You'd THINK this would be a huge deal for Chunwi.. but when PC Chips got caught out, I'm not even sure if it dropped their sales significantly. Reply
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