> On Oct 26, 2016, at 9:07 AM, Noel Chiappa <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> ...
>
> So that figure I was given of 30K in stock is probably not from that one
> vendor, but across all of them. But since nobody is using these chips in a
> product (that I know of), I suspect the number is likely to go down only
> slowly.
The trouble with chip resellers is that it's hard to know which ones are legit,
and which ones are in the fake chip business. There have been some articles in
the trade press about chips being sold with false labels, typically with some
sort of chip inside but not anything like what the number on the outside
indicated. You might get a memory chip instead of a microprocessor, for
example, or a 7400 instead of something more valuable.
paul
