Newegg is currently conducting a thorough investigation surrounding recent shipments of questionable Intel Core i7-920 CPUs purchased from Newegg.com.

Initial information we received from our supplier, IPEX, stated that they had mistakenly shipped us "demo units." We have since come to discover the CPUs were counterfeit and are terminating our relationship with this supplier. Contrary to any speculation, D&H Distributing is not the vendor that supplied us with the Intel Core i7-920 CPUs in question.

Newegg’s top priority is to proactively reach out to all customers who may have been affected to ensure their absolute satisfaction. We have already sent out a number of replacement units and are doing everything in our power to resolve the matter promptly and with the least amount of inconvenience to our customers.

We have always taken pride in providing an exceptional experience for each customer, and we apologize for any inconvenience to our valued customers. We take matters like this extremely seriously, and are working in close cooperation with Intel and the appropriate law enforcement authorities to thoroughly investigate this incident.

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NVIDIA's next-generation GPU architecture, codenamed Fermi, made a few brief appearances at this week's CeBIT, and though we'll have to wait until March 26 for an official unveiling,

the graphics giant has teased its upcoming high-end solution, the GeForce GTX 480, in a surprise YouTube video.

The clip, featuring NVIDIA's director of technical marketing Tom Petersen, shows a GeForce GTX 480 running in a high-end Intel X58 system equipped with a Core i7 960 processor.

After a brief explanation of DirectX 11, particularly the goodness on offer from hardware tessellation, Petersen, who ran through 'Fermi's' features in a HEXUS.tv show,

provides a performance comparison between the GeForce GTX 480 and AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5870 using the Unigine 'Heaven' benchmark.

Read more: Geforce GTX 480 Benchmarks

Speaking to Wired.com during the company’s media summit at the W hotel in San Francisco, Dunaway said that at this point in the lifecycle of Nintendo’s home console, sales might not continue to climb. “It’s natural that at this point in the lifecycle, going in to our fifth year, that we’re probably not going to sell as many units next year as we sold this year. That’s the course of a cyclical business. But that’s not to say that we can’t continue to sell a lot of units for a long period of time,” she said.

As of January 2010, the NPD Group said that Nintendo had sold 27.6 million Wii consoles in the U.S, 9.6 million of which were sold in 2009. Wii launched in November 2006.

The rest of our interview touched on the other things that Nintendo said (or were conspicuously reticent about) at the summit, from the Nintendo DSi XL to The Legend of Zelda on Wii to the company’s localization plans for Japanese games like Xenoblade. An edited Q&A is below.

Read more: Wii sales predicted to slip in 2010

Shortly after Sony officially announced the PSP Go at the 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo, reports surfaced that the electronics maker was already working on a follow-up to the handheld device. According to a report out of Japanese business newspaper Nikkei in June, Sony began assembling a product-development team tasked with combining the PSP's game-playing functionality with Sony Ericsson's mobile phone technology to better compete against Apple's iPhone.

Read more: PSP + Phone+Games=PSP phone?