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| gbaddeley:
--- Quote from: EEEnthusiast on February 12, 2020, 08:07:49 am ---For e.g. a worker cannot walk out of the fab with few microchip (or any other company logo) chips and provide it to another vendor. Unmarked chips will create no suspicion when carried and delivered. If caught, then it is very difficult to find out if those parts are smuggled out of the fab. Thus they avoid any legal issue, IP rights etc.. --- End quote --- You are stating that workers are committing theft and taking measures to avoid getting caught and getting into trouble. I wonder if the major companies for which these chips are being made are aware that this is going on. This activity seems to be quite distinct from legitimate second-sourcing deals that the major company is party. Interesting. |
| EEEnthusiast:
--- Quote from: gbaddeley on February 13, 2020, 08:58:51 am --- --- Quote from: EEEnthusiast on February 12, 2020, 08:07:49 am ---For e.g. a worker cannot walk out of the fab with few microchip (or any other company logo) chips and provide it to another vendor. Unmarked chips will create no suspicion when carried and delivered. If caught, then it is very difficult to find out if those parts are smuggled out of the fab. Thus they avoid any legal issue, IP rights etc.. --- End quote --- You are stating that workers are committing theft and taking measures to avoid getting caught and getting into trouble. I wonder if the major companies for which these chips are being made are aware that this is going on. This activity seems to be quite distinct from legitimate second-sourcing deals that the major company is party. Interesting. --- End quote --- I do not think it is the worker initiating and doing this. The contract manufacturing fab managers/owners need to be aware of this. There is not other way for them to get access to the masks needed to build the IC. |
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