26 Oct
2016
26 Oct
'16
6:14 a.m.
On Oct 26, 2016, at 9:07 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at
mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
The trouble with chip resellers is that it's hard to know which ones are legit, and
which ones are in the fake chip business. There have been some articles in the trade
press about chips being sold with false labels, typically with some sort of chip inside
but not anything like what the number on the outside indicated. You might get a memory
chip instead of a microprocessor, for example, or a 7400 instead of something more
valuable.
paul
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So that figure I was given of 30K in stock is probably not from that one
vendor, but across all of them. But since nobody is using these chips in a
product (that I know of), I suspect the number is likely to go down only
slowly.