Dodging counterfeit electronic components is far more difficult than in the past

More and more articles continue to be written about the issue of counterfeit components. Hot of the press is an article that can be found online in Electronic Engineering Times. Written by Tom Sharpe, the vice-president of SMT Corp., he focuses on the issue of recycled scrapped components that are misrepresented as new components. Regular readers of this ChipCheck blog will have heard it all already, but when a vice present of SMT Corp, a big distributor for large volumes of electronic component, gives his opinion its worthwhile to have a read. More info can be found here.