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digsys:
What's more interesting, and I've seen it on many routers / switches etc .. it appears that it is all hand soldered.
When I asked a supplier why, a couple years ago, they said it was cheaper !!! Go figure
Cyberdragon:
--- Quote from: digsys on June 03, 2018, 12:27:58 am ---What's more interesting, and I've seen it on many routers / switches etc .. it appears that it is all hand soldered.
When I asked a supplier why, a couple years ago, they said it was cheaper !!! Go figure
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Were they using children or something? :wtf:
digsys:
... and worse than that ... there is a pool of ~1 billion ultra-poor, The govt allows companies to hire people on training contracts / work experience /
internship or whatever name they decide to call it .. and provide only accommodation and / or minimal pay for months. Then they can dump them.
And worse .. ages ago, I worked on a large govt contract in Malaysia where we were "required" to accept a few dozen chinese slave labourers.
They got paid ~$1 day, plus stuffed into a tin shed. You're not in Kansas now mate :-)
james_s:
--- Quote from: Gyro on May 09, 2018, 09:44:27 am ---Given the prevalence of salvaged and re-marked parts on the Shenzen market, they could simply buy a batch of whatever parts they are, get them blacktopped and re-marked with a completely different part number. >:D
That would confuse the hell out of all but the most lateral thinking of reverse engineers. It must be a cheap enough process considering how common it is.
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Atari did this with some of their early arcade games back in the 70s. I helped someone working on an old board that had a mask ROM labeled with a a 74xx TTL number. Looking at the schematic it was obvious that it was a ROM but that's not what the number looked up as.
I see sanded off numbers on ICs all the time, and it's usually stuff that isn't worth trying to copy in the first place. Usually it makes me curious and increases the likelihood that I'll reverse engineer it.
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