-------- In message <CANX10hCffM_bg9OXmDZmPH8CM7DJ7-6+2SDn9htdH1=6b-e...@mail.gmail.com> , "Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)" writes:
>When I looked on >eBay, the board was £2.25 delivered from China. The Analog Devices website >shows the chip having a budgetary price of $7 in quantities of 1000 or >more. So if the chips are $7 (£5-£6), how can they make a complete board, >and pay the postage from China for £2.25? It seems to me highly likely >those voltage reference chips are counterfeit. If not counterfeit, they are >hardly legal devices. You overlook the most likely scenario: "Pre-owned". China has _massive_ and very efficient recycling of electronic components from all the E-Junk we send down there. And for voltage references, "pre-owned" is likely to mean "better". -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
