AMD: some of our chips are missing

“ THE INQ got a call from AMD’s HQ in Sunnyvale at midnight last night, but it wasn’t about defective chips swilling around in the channel, or for all we know, sitting in peoples’ machines.

No. The ALA wanted to know just how we got wind of AMD World, so we told him the truth: Senior exec Henri Richard had leaked it by mistake.

We kept trying to ask him about what in our view is a far more interesting story – exactly how someone got their mitts on 60,000 “defective” AMD chips. For all we know, and AMD is being singularly defensive on this one, people who bought chips through the grey market have sold machines containing them in Europe.”