On Friday, we published a story broken by [H]ard|OCP, which revealed that Newegg had accidentally shipped counterfeit Core i7 920 processors to some customers.
The story generated some buzz, with both Icrontic and [H]ard|OCP served with a cease and desist notice by D&H Distributing, the party alleged by a source to be the distributor that sold the fakes to Newegg.
In a clarification given to [H]ard|OCP directly from Newegg, however, D&H Distributing is cleared of any wrongdoing related to the counterfeits, with Newegg placing the blame on a different supplier, IPEX:
Initial information we received from our supplier, IPEX, stated that they had mistakenly shipped us “demo units.” We have since come to discover the CPUs were counterfeit and are terminating our relationship with this supplier. Contrary to any speculation, D&H Distributing is not the vendor that supplied us with the Intel Core i7-920 CPUs in question.
Newegg continues to proactively reach out to customers who may have purchased one of the 300 affected “demo boxes,” offering either a full refund or an advanced RMA, the latter of which cross-ships the replacement part for a faster RMA.
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