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We broke chips to find out if they are real
🕑 Added 2020-01-31 02:14:01 +0000 UTCMy friend Antoine (you'll get to meet him soon) just showed us a new method to recover chips from plastic packages without using nasty chemicals. Which is timely because I suspected some vintage chips I bought from China might have been fakes. We freed the chips. Ken's verdict: they were the real thing, a rare injection process from TI in the 1970's. Antoine loves chips, see what he once sent Dave on EEVBlog:
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MVVblog
Fake microchips from China, this is not so far from reality
Christian Giudici
I remember this very well... Because I watched your 2016 Hackaday video recently ;-)