Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has filed a lawsuit against the chairman of Taiwan-based Atop Electronics, Chen Yue-han (translated directly from Chinese), for his alleged involvement in stealing and selling 60,000 suspect AMD CPUs that Taiwan police seized earlier this year, the Chinese-language Liberty Times reported today, quoting police sources. The police said that the suspect CPUs were defective AMD K7 and K8 CPUs that should have been destroyed at the company’s testing plant in Singapore two years ago, the paper said.
Chen denied the accusation, stating that he imported more than one million second-hand AMD CPUs legally during the July-October period in 2003 through a Singapore-based company, DCP Corporation Singapore, which was jointly set up by Chen and another shareholder of Atop. After being cleaned and re-tested, the bulk of the second-hand AMD CPUs had been sold to companies in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, the Netherlands, Belgium and the US, the Liberty Times quoted Chen as saying.
Both Atop and AMD Taiwan were not available for comment.
Article translated by Steve Shen and edited by John McClure
