The world’s largest chipmaker today notified its customers about design changes of its CPU retail boxes. This is the second time this year Intel changes the design of its product boxes (see this news-story), earlier, the company redesigned them a little bit less often.

Beginning mid-July, 2003 Intel will ship boxed Intel Pentium 4, Intel Celeron, Intel Xeon, Mobile Intel Pentium 4-M, Mobile Intel Pentium M and Intel Pentium III processors with the following changes to the package:

• Removal of the plastic shrinkwrap;
• New entry method for the box with a pull-tab on the side flap for easier entry to the box;
• Two tamper-evident seals added to the side flaps;
• Box information label is now permanently affixed to the box.

Basically, all these measures should make it more difficult to sell remarked processors by fraudsters. Though, I really have not heard of many fake Intel processors within the last couple of years, while there were a number of remarked AMD processors on the market earlier this year (see this news-story).

First processors in the new packages will appear on the 14^th of June.