SEC wags its finger at Intel
By Nick Farrell, 10 August 2009
CNET has got its paws on a letter from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to Intel in which it is miffed that Celeron processors have apparently been showing up in PCs in Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria. These are all countries that are not allowed to have such advanced technology and therefore are subject to US economic sanctions and export controls. The reason is that the US alleges these countries back terrorism, so the SEC thinks Intel's sales will come home to blow up in its face. According to the letter, the commission was miffed that Intel's Form 10-K did not include disclosure regarding contacts with Cuba, Iran, Sudan, and Syria. The SEC's letter said that Cuban PCs have Intel Celeron processors with "80 gigabytes of memory" and 512 RAM and are equipped with Microsoft's Windows XP. The SEC said the PCs were assembled by Cuban companies using parts imported from China. Now we don't think that the Cubans or any ot those other countries are going to create supercomputers with Intel's bottom-of-the-performance-barrel processors. Even wired up by the thousands in large server farms, Celeron processors are going to be a bit out of their depth.
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