A group of researchers from the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering at the University of Maryland have discovered that the use of tin plating for components used in Toyota’s…
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We are all feverishly trying to figure out the latest signs of counterfeits and how to detect them, but many of the common attributes of counterfeiting are from procedures the…
The long awaited AS6081 document, which will be the new bible for electronic component distributors to detect counterfeits when buying from the open market, has met a major milestone. The…
The world is changing faster than we can imagine. These new chips have a technology called NFC, which enables data to be exchanged wirelessly over distances of a few centimeters,…
A team of electrical engineers at Vanderbilt University has replaced silicon with diamonds in semiconductors and found that there are major benefits in performance. See this article for more details.
Apple has taken over the lead quickly. Their iPad and iPhone added almost $10 billion in component purchases over the last few years. This article is great as it shows…
Counterfeiting electronic components continues to evolve. As we get better at detection, the counterfeiters get better at creating them. Robb’s presentation will describe how a counterfeiter, right here in the…
Revenue from the sales of electronic components is forecast to grow by more than a third by 2015. Even in this poor economy, electronic component sales seem to be growing. …
The presentation being given is a case example of a US company which extracted die from one product and encapsulated it in an entirely different product to reap large financial…
Here is a group of parts we received today. To avoid the possibility of someone detecting blacktopping the counterfeiters are removing just a little bit of the top layer with…
