Posted on 10/30/2007 12:05:22 PM PDT by bkepley
The first part we expected to receive was the Toshiba 56-nm 16-Gbit multilevel-cell NAND flash...To our dismay, the die markings were not Toshiba's, but Samsung's. After comparing the die markings (K9G4G08U0A) in our database, we were able to match the markings to the Samsung 4-Gbit 65-nm MLC NAND flash...
If we had ordered the part in question for system design purposes, our system would have failed, since the device was only a 4-Gbit model and not the 16-Gbit version we had ordered and expected.
I hope they left bad feedback
.....lol
This is a damn interesting article to burn up 5 minutes at work.
I have been buying and selling semis in Asia for about 14 years. I can honestley say that I have never dealt with so much fake, counterfeit used being sold as new garbage since China has gotten involved in the IC/Semi trading world.
Its really terrible.
They will tell you its all new and when you look at teh digital pic, there is solder and scratches all over the chip. When you ask them whats going on, they say, “Its very new and not used too much so its mostly newer!”
Agreed.
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