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Dave! How about a video on Fake Chips
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bruceathompson:
Saw this the other day and thought, DAVE, you need to do this



Thanks!

boB:
Very interesting !

And another geek channel on YT I did not know about !

Thanks !
MrMobodies:
It reminds me of something that happened to Dave and he did a video of Fairchild Semiconductors FTDI bricking a lot of suspected counterfeit chips through the driver updates in video EEVblog #676 - RANT: FTDI Bricking Counterfeit Chips!

Edit: Oops I confused the two manufacturers.
wraper:

--- Quote from: MrMobodies on February 25, 2020, 01:28:05 pm ---It reminds me of something that happened to Dave and he did a video of Fairchild Semiconductors bricking a lot of suspected counterfeit chips through the driver updates in video EEVblog #676 - RANT: FTDI Bricking Counterfeit Chips!

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Fairchild and FTDI have nothing to do with each other.

--- Quote ---suspected counterfeit chips
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Through the method they were bricked, its impossible to brick genuine chip. They simply wrote to EEPROM with a width that the real devices ignore. So bricked chips were 100% counterfeit.
coppice:
Why would Dave want to make a video on fake chips? Several people on YouTube have seriously researched the topic and made reasonable videos. I'm not aware of Dave having any specific expertise on the topic. A lot of the interesting experience many of us have with fake chips are things we can't really talk about, because companies don't want publicity about the problems they have had.
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