Counterfeit PartsPart WatchSemiconductor Market News Senate Armed Forces Committee Meets Counterfeits Head On The Senate Armed Services Committee, in their latest hearing, has addressed the issue of counterfeit…Robb HammondNovember 10, 2011
AERI News Detecting Counterfeits Involves Putting a Number of Clues Together When we receive parts they are inspected for over 30 different attributes to determine if…Robb HammondNovember 9, 2011
Semiconductor Market News Woman gets 38 months in prison for selling counterfeit integrated circuits Stephanie McCloskey, former employee of VisionTech in Clearwater Florida, has received her sentencing. She will…Robb HammondOctober 27, 2011
Part WatchSemiconductor Market News Tin Whiskers from Lead Free Components Possible Cause of Toyota Throttle Problem A group of researchers from the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering at the University…Robb HammondOctober 17, 2011
Counterfeit Parts Manufacturers Sandblast the Tops of Their Parts Too! Counterfeit Curveballs We are all feverishly trying to figure out the latest signs of counterfeits and how…Robb HammondOctober 10, 2011
Counterfeit Parts SAE G19 AS6081: “Counterfeit Electronic Parts; Avoidance Protocol, Distributors” document out for balloting The long awaited AS6081 document, which will be the new bible for electronic component distributors…Robb HammondOctober 3, 2011
Part Watch New Chips in High Demand The world is changing faster than we can imagine. These new chips have a technology…Robb HammondSeptember 26, 2011
Part Watch Diamonds May Improve Semiconductor Performance A team of electrical engineers at Vanderbilt University has replaced silicon with diamonds in semiconductors…Robb HammondSeptember 19, 2011
Semiconductor Market News Apple now world’s largest semiconductor buyer Apple has taken over the lead quickly. Their iPad and iPhone added almost $10 billion…Robb HammondSeptember 16, 2011
AERI NewsCounterfeit PartsPart WatchSemiconductor Market News AERI President to present “Counterfeits Made with Harvested Die – How it’s Done and Detection” at SMTA and CALCE’s Counterfeit Electronic Parts and Counterfeiting electronic components continues to evolve. As we get better at detection, the counterfeiters get…Robb HammondSeptember 16, 2011