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AMD claims it had no knowledge of fake Ryzen 5 7430U CPUs in Chuwi laptops — Chinese vendor announces recall of products and refunds, PCB manufacturer could be culprit
AMD has responded to the Chuwi scandal involving mislabeled Ryzen 5 7430U-equipped laptops. The CPU maker claims it had no knowledge of the issue, and warns that it does not condone mislabelling CPUs in any way.
Chuwigate: As a result of the discovery of AMD Ryzen chips made up on mobile phones, AMD soon communicated.
Even AMD has come the case of the counterfeiting of processors on two CHUWI laptops, the CoreBook X and the CoreBook Plus. As a context, in case you did not see the news in its day, it ended up discovering that CHUWI had modified the BIOS and software of its computers to rename an AMD Ryzen 5 5500U processor as a Ryzen 5 7430U on its CoreBook X laptops. Shortly thereafter, Notebookcheck had access to another model, the CoreBook Plus, and confirm…
The case had already made some noise in recent days, and AMD has now reacted officially. The manufacturer has issued a statement in China concerning the scandal around some CHUWI portable PCs, sold with a processor different from the one announced. As a reminder, as we already explained in our previous news, several CoreBook models were presented with a Ryzen 5 7430U. A relatively new Zen 3 processor, adapted to versatile machines. Except that i…
AMD Releases Statement on Chuwi's Ryzen Processor Mislabeling Scandal
AMD today released a statement in China on the scandal involving Chinese notebook OEM Chuwi mislabeling Ryzen 5000 series mobile processor models as Ryzen 7000 series. You can read all about the scandal in our older article, but to summarize, the company was found selling notebooks with cheap Zen 2 Ryzen 5 5500U processors with the processor name strings modified in the BIOS to falsely show Ryzen 5 7430U, a Zen 3 chip released almost three years…
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