Quote Originally Posted by bot@xs View Post
to me the question, as asked before, is still:
why not ask back for the chip?
The sampling program is larger than you think, we are sending samples to PC manufacturerssss and they want to keep the CPU for further validation usually.

Most of the samples sold are not the one we distribute via press sampling, neither the rare sample given to overclockers for marketing activities. Those people respect the rules.

Calling back sample would be a very big scale operation, that would bother a lot of people. some time, randomely, we organize audit, and ask few back.

What I am trying to do here is some prevention and some information, instead of hunting directly for something I wish does not exist.

I hope that by repeating enough the fact that it is not OK to sell the samples, we will see this dissapearing.

For those that break the rules in the public place and leave enough evidence, there is nothing I can do, I warned many times, and their employers will get the nice email they deserve about the confidentiality and ownership of the product they sold.
They usually get 30 days to provide the part back to us ...

guys, i am trying to be open here, if you want a F1 ligue, you got to fix those obvious problems. I will not sponsor any even with one of the guys selling the parts online into the events, and I ll ask my buddies at AMD to follow this since it is reasonable. that sound like a good beginning