Takes on AMD in Axis of Evil markets
Intel has received a complaint from the SEC warning it that its CPUs
were used in PCs in a number of rogue nations, identified by the State
Department as state sponsors of terrorism.
The SEC is now demanding Intel describes its contacts with some of
those countries, mainly the peace loving democratic nations of Cuba,
Sudan, Iran and Syria. Now, if Intel was selling powerful server chips
to these countries, the SEC moan would make sense, but we're talking
about regular PCs, low-end at best.
The SEC describes PCs shipped to the socialist paradise of Cuba as
powered by Celeron CPUs, "with 80 gigabytes of memory (yes, memory) and
512MB RAM". Furthermore these babies run Windows XP, which the
Caribbean communists prefer in favor of Linux for some reason.
Apparently Cuban companies assembled them using parts attained from
fellow Chinese communists. Considering the hardware used in them, they
could have probably salvaged something better in the shark infested
waters off Florida.
Unlike Cubans, Iranian mullahs prefer AMD Opteron parts, and use them
in their supercomputers on a regular basis. We're not sure what they
use in North Korea, but if they've got Celerons like all communists,
Californians should probably learn not to worry and love their
Taep'o-dongs.
More
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