The Taiwan police recently arrested four engineers suspected of trafficking engineering samples of Intel processors through eBay auction. Having searched the homes of suspects, police found 178 engineering sample processors, whose market value exceeds $ 800 000.
Those arrested were employees of OEM-Intel partners , which traditionally receive engineering samples of CPUs in advance for the needs of test equipment. The suspects confessed that during the period from 2009 managed to sell about 500 engineering sample processors.