p2pnet.net News:- On the heels of yesterday’s announcement of AMD’s new system-on-chip Alchemy Au1200 processor comes news that police in Taiwan raided four companies suspected of tampering with, or selling, relabelled AMD processors.

"Numerous people were arrested, said AMD spokeswoman Catherine Abbinanti, and a number of chips were confiscated," says ZDNet UK.

"AMD declined to comment on the number of processors that were seized, their value or how they were obtained by the companies in question, as the investigation is ongoing."

Taiwanese IT daily DigiTimes on Monday reported that Taiwanese police seized about 60,000 AMD chips in a raid on a Taiwanese company and cited reports that said a number of the relabelled chips may already have already been distributed in Europe and Asia, says ZDNet, adding that Abbinanti said at this time, AMD had no reason to believe that any processors from the company in question had made it to Europe.

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See:-
Au1200 – AMD’s Alchemy ’system-on-chip’, p2pnet, January 4, 2005
arrested - Police seize relabelled AMD chips, ZDNet UK, January 5, 2005

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