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Fighting Counterfeiting in the electronic parts industry

by J Ferguson on Mar 6, 2010

Electronic parts and components form the building blocks of all electronic devices; our lives are filled with electronic products which are full of components such as semiconductors, resistors and capacitors. The average household has dozens of devices from children’s toys to audio/visual equipment to smoke detectors, and each year we become more and more dependent on these devices. The estimated global spending on electronic parts and components that go into all these devices we buy for 2009 is around 660 billion US dollars, so it’s easy to see why it’s caught the eye of component counterfeiters trying to get their piece of the pie through breaking the law. But how can counterfeited electronic components affect the average person?  Product failures are one example. When consumers buy electronic products they expect the device to last. Products that contain counterfeited parts jeopardize the consumer’s expectation, which can lead from the extreme (loss of life) to...Read More >>