Hmmm, I just found this thread when wonder if people outside Taiwan know about this.
This news about "Dark-hearted display card" (translated from Chinese, you get the idea) was seen on local TV today, and is expected to have more reports about it.
The company which was accused in the first post, GeCube, has an annoucement on their homepage:
<A HREF="
http://www.gecube.com/mbu/mediaRoom.php" target="_new">
http://www.gecube.com/mbu/mediaRoom.php</A>
For people who are curious about this news, here's some additional information: (Are there any Triplex users outside Taiwan, I wonder?)
The product that was found to have remarked RAM so far includes ATi 9550 and Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 from Triplex. The RAM was marked as Samsung -4, and is actually VDATA -6.
The key of this event is the underclocked BIOS. If Triplex do not know about the remarked RAM, they have no reason to underclock the BIOS to 166MHz, for the RAM is marked as -4 ns and should be working at 200MHz (the ATi case). Any user-performed benchmark will reveal this.
It is reasonable to speculate that the Triplex either knows the RAM is actually -6, and do not ask the upstream for replacement but sell these products with underclocked BIOS instead, or they remark the RAM themselves.
Triplex has unofficially announced that they are victims to remarked RAM too, and offer replacement for remarked products. They said that they bought these RAM from a mainland China upstream. They didn't said anything about the underclocked BIOS.
So far we have no words from VDATA yet, and Samsung Taiwan announced in the report that they "are concerned about this event, and the Korean Headquarter is considering international law actions on this".
An agent of the Consumer Protection Commission (goverment organization) said on the TV that "The manufacturer do have responsibilities on this, and they may have already contravene the Consumer Protection Law, Trademark Law and Copyright Law. We will conduct investigation on this."<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by MichaelChen on 01/04/05 04:17 PM.</EM></FONT></P>