Closer inspection (and a bit of fingernail prying) revealed that underneath the sticker lay ... AM3+ chip with a 3.8 GHz ...

AMD's Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 "Strix Point" APU packs 12C/24T of Zen 5, and the Radeon 890M "RDNA 3.5" integrated GPU, so we ...

There have been reports of people buying AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D on Amazon only to find it was a fake with a sticker on top. The fake was shrink-wrapped in a box, making it look like it was brand new.

Well-known hardware reviewers aren't immune to tech retail fakers, and to demonstrate this, Hardware Busters has shared images of a counterfeit AMD Ryzen 7 ... the amazing IHS sticker peel image ...