Intel to pay $15 to Pentium 4 PC owners in US for 'faking' benchmarks

[nRiTeCh]

Intel may have manipulated benchmarks for its Pentium 4 processors in order to hide the performance different against AMD's Athlon processors at the time.

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[raksrules]

I owned a Pentium 4 PC once here. Am I eligible ?

 

[nRiTeCh]

Lol..me too. I think almost 99.7% indian should be compensated

 

[ayanavish]

And people who ran the ahem version of windows on them, what will happen to them

 

[avi]

please provide a link, where can I get my 15 USD. kthxbi.

 

[puns]

They should have penalised Intel to give 15$ off on the next purchase.
How will people prove they had bought one 12 years back.
Symbolic judgement looks like.

 

[vivek.krishnan]

I don't think this will apply to us Indians, and as most of us wont have the bill, let along the P4 CPU (I still have mine, but the rest is all history) we wont be getting it.

 

[Being.smart]

i do have my Mastermind PC running on P4 still, how i can get 15$

 

[nRiTeCh]

i do have my Mastermind PC running on P4 still, how i can get 15$

Shift to US and prove you bought it there locally

 

[touzeen]

I had a Pentium 4 Prescott for the longest time....went thru 2 motherboards and piles of ram to keep it running...

 

[nRiTeCh]

I had couple of them as well right from the HT ones to the Prescotts. Sold to needy TE members and gave some to needy friends for free.

 

[harishgayatri]

I still have them. One of them is doing the duty of my HTPC

 

[?dOuBtFiRe?]

Yeah me too. Have a 2.4ghz and 3.0ghz models running in the loft. Still have bills.
Anyways the penalty is valid only in US. Meaning... purchased in US. Once again we Indians are made fools.

Nice to know in US, big companies like intel get penalized and money awarded to customers. Dream of one day when Indian companies like Reliance, BSNL,Airtel,TATA,Vodaphone gets slapped with penalties and end customers get some money.

 

[nRiTeCh]

Yeah me too. Have a 2.4ghz and 3.0ghz models running in the loft. Still have bills.
Anyways the penalty is valid only in US. Meaning... purchased in US. Once again we Indians are made fools.

Nice to know in US, big companies like intel get penalized and money awarded to customers. Dream of one day when Indian companies like Reliance, BSNL,Airtel,TATA,Vodaphone gets slapped with penalties and end customers get some money.

Yup this 'll happen but after 100 odd years.