Intel compensates for American buyers Pentium 4 for misleading benchmarks

Intel gives American buyers a Pentium 4 in the period from november 2000 to december 2001, a compensation, because the company has misled with benchmarks. Those tests showed the Pentium 4 conveniently released compared to AMD’s Athlon Thunderbird.

The compensation amounts to 15 dollars, converted about 12 euro, and anyone who wants money, don’t have a receipt or other physical evidence, it appears from the page of the judicial process surrounding this case. The compensation is a result of a settlement in the case in which the prosecutors and Intel in the past summer found.

The compensation amounts to about 10 percent of the purchase price of a Pentium 4 at the time. The compensation only applies to Americans; the Dutch and Belgians, there can be no claim to make. In addition to the compensation makes Intel converted several millions euros to the education initiatives in the field of computers.

The prosecutors accused Intel of manipulating benchmarks and benchmark results of popular techmedia in that time used, to the Intel processor more to get compared to the competing AMD Athlon Thunderbird. It should, however, not to income, under more Tweakers wrote that “AMD won’t have much to fear has’ Pentium 4′ on the basis of a review of JC-News.

According to prosecutors is the practice of manipulating benchmarks harmful, because mediapublicaties their conclusions mostly on the base and manipulation, therefore, the general image of processors affects. Intel has the influence is not admitted; both parties found the settlement before a lawsuit came. The case was already since 2004.

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