Re: Counterfeit or re-marked Electronic components.

Yes, my company has been caught by mis-marked ICs before. It was
purchased from a regular distributor who had stock. This distributor has a
good reputation, but it turned out their supplier, well.......

Good distributor should screen things like this. Otoh, it may be hard for them
to spot bad components aswell.

Anyway, this was an IC which was an old version if the CPU, and the part
number had been relabelled.

Now, if we have ANY doubt, we test one of whatever part it may be before
using in production.

Maybe a small x-ray equipment could be used to look inside to find the
conterfeit components .. ?
Kind like X-ray -> computerized image comparision.

(any ideas for suitable X-ray source?)

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