Recent worldwide IC shortages have opened the door for bad characters to exploit the starving electronic component marketplace with fake or counterfeit chips. Counterfeit chips are aimed at procurement officers whose production lines in danger of shutting down. A counterfeit chip might be a knock-off designed inexpensively from scratch as a drop-in replacement, or it might be a genuine-but-scavenged part, desoldered from an old PCB. Another trick is to repaint a similar size device with “authentic” markings. Some of these chips may even appear to work at first but then fail in service, perhaps when under a load or environment with which the original would have had no problem.
In this video, Angela discusses this topic, covered in our latest Newsletter: dealing with the headache of Counterfeit Components - a real danger in these days of component shortage!
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