Quote Originally Posted by [XC] Oj101 View Post
Fake.

All of my AMD ES chips have a blank heatspreader with a number scribbled on top in permanent marker, and why is the copyright date 2010? That's the same heatspreader they've been using for a while, and the copyright is on the design of the heatspreader.
Do you really think the only thing they are trying to protect is the copyright on the heatspreader?

What about the chip itself. Sure there are patents to protect the underlying technology, and here in the Netherlands we have a specific act for the protection of semiconductor design but that doesn't mean copyright protection for the design of the chip does not exist. In fact, it is quite essential as the only international treaty that I know of (Washington, WIPO) for the protection of semiconductor design offers only low protection.

Also, the fact that you only got blank IHS ES, hardly makes it a fact that all AMD ES should have a blank IHS.