Newegg isn't the company that is threatening the news site. It's D&H Distributing, who allegedly supplied the chips to Newegg.
I haven't found any article that says how D&H Distributing was identified as the supplier. If they didn't actually supply the chips, D&H is within their rights to complain.
Newegg might share some of the blame, depending on the quality of the counterfeiting. If the chip was shipped in what looked like a realistic Intel box, then they wouldn't have noticed unless they opened the boxes and checked the contents.
To Newegg's credit, they are providing replacements quickly and assisting Intel in the investigation.
noted that Newegg had shipped replacements for the fake CPUs quickly to affected customers
Good companies remedy the situation with their customers quickly. I like Newegg.
“D&H, however,threw its toys out of its pram...”
Love that turn of phrase...
I don’t think Newegg is an issue here, a very good and well respected company with a lot of banked credibility throughout its clientele channel; not sure about D&H.
What concerns me is, Intel and the FBI plus a bunch of other groups should be involved to ferrite out the source of this and reverse engineer chip/processor and what it does; possible Chicom Chips. Does this knockoff include VPN pipelines, malware, Trojans, Remote Control, call home and other coded features that allow hacking from a far? Remember once in side the network easy pick’ns.
I’m glad HardOCP isn’t knuckling under to a bunch of shyster lawyers from D&H. They and many others have the physical proof, and Intel has confirmed that these are not Demo Boxes. Fix your damn supply chain and stop who is doing this.
Now that the news is out on a mainstream media outlet... this guy needs to countersue for defamation of character and harassment.
Now that D&H has been shown not to be the vendor in question, I think an apology and retraction is in order. You sounded very sure that they were guilty.
Just a thought for everyone: A Cease and Desist order is not an indication of guilt. If someone is slandering you and hurting your business with untrue accusations, you have a legal right to make them stop.
Bloggers pretending to be journalists (like HardOCP) have an obligation to make some effort to check their facts before trying to do material harm to another person or company.