Monday, March 8, 2010

Newegg Ships Fake Core i7s to Unlucky Customers

Sources say Newegg has received a shipment of fake Core i7 processors.

Newegg reportedly ordered a shipment of 2,000 chips from D&H and 300 of them were counterfeit. Hot Hardware cites a posting from an Overclockers.com forum member named Dreadrok who received one of the fake CPUs. Dreadlock says he ordered a Core i7 920 from Newegg and received a completely fake processor.
According to HotHardware, NewEgg says the fake processors are actually demo units but looking at the pictures below (via Dreadlock), it's a hard excuse to swallow. What's more D&H has sent out cease and desist orders to two websites running stories on the fraudulent chips.
Newegg, a trusted source among PC enthusiasts, is providing customers who received the fake Core i7s with RMAs.

AMD Wants to Know What You'd Do With 48 Cores

Tell AMD what you might do with 48 cores and you could have your plans realized!

What would you do with a 48-core system? That's what AMD wants to know – and if you give them a particularly compelling answer, you could be the owner of one such system.
The AMD Server team is giving away the following prize worth $8,189 USD:
    * Four new AMD Opteron processors Model 6174, 12-core (2.2 GHz)
    * Tyan S8812 motherboard: the motherboard is a Tyan S8812 that features 4 processor sockets with the capacity for you to install up to 8 DIMMs per socket
    * one copy of Windows Server 2008
And what might you have to do to bag such a prize? Submit your idea to AMD about what you would do with 48 cores by: Writing an essay (no more than 500 words); or creating a You Tube video (no longer than 3 minutes); or writing a blog (no more than 500 words).
AMD does give a tip that submitting a creation about playing World of Warcraft faster than anyone isn't going to help your cause. Instead, AMD urges you to think about what you can do to help society and others.

Google Says Desktops Will Be Irrelevant in 3 Years

Google's VP of online sales and operations has made the bold statement that in three years time desktop computers will be irrelevant.


Speaking at UCD in Dublin yesterday, Google Chief John Herlihy said that smartphones enhance Google’s mission to make information universal, adding that in Japan, more research is being done on cell phones than on PCs. Herlihy predicted that soon smartphones will be the center of it all.



Herlihy's statements have caused quite a stir in the tech world. There are those who wholeheartedly agree but Silicon Republic, who first reported the story, says that audience members were baffled. Indeed it's hard to imagine office cubicles without desktops and even harder to imagine laptops meeting the needs of hardcore PC gamers.
But, whether you agree with his sentiments or not, it is clear the direction Google is taking as a company. Silicon Republic reports that, not too long ago, CEO Eric Schmidt told an audience at the Mobile World Congress that the company was working on products from a 'mobile first' prospective.


Ufone’s Handset Offer – Rs. 1199


Ufone is up again with Handset offer – with what you can get a mobile phone  with built-in torch, all for Rs.1199 only.
Looks Ufone is serious with bundled handsets’ offering, however, their previous experience caused them not much luck due to un-locking of phones.