What is REALLY happening is these fake chips are riding on the back of FTDI’s reputation, to the point where they are claiming to BE FTDI. That is flat out illegal no matter which way you dice it.

A counterfeit chip might be a knock-off designed inexpensively from scratch as a drop-in replacement, or it might be a genuine-but-scavenged part, desoldered from the board it was found on, ...

It’s the fault of the counterfeit chip for using an FTDI USB ID in order to use the FTDI Windows driver. If they’d bothered to write their own Windows driver this never would have happened.

The semiconductor shortage has allowed counterfeit chips to flood the market. Bill Cardoso of Creative Electron X-rays the devices to tell which are real. Let’s talk about computer chips. We ...

FTDI on counterfeit chip bricking: “Our intentions were honorable” "Less intrusive" measures may just annoy users and not help prevent piracy.

Asked whether any military equipment had malfunctioned because of fake chips, Tonya Johnson, a spokeswoman for the Defense Logistics Agency, which buys most of the military’s electronic ...

Rogue counterfeit chips are manufactured to look exactly like authentic chips, with identical packages, markings, and electrical interfaces. Impossible to visually distinguish from authentic, there is ...

Manufacturers of fake, knock-off chips in China, Taiwan and elsewhere are increasingly targeting the rapidly-growing market for “military-capable” computers in the United States, because the profit ...

The admiral fired last year as No. 2 commander of U.S. nuclear forces may have made his own counterfeit $500 poker chips with paint and stickers to feed a gambling habit that eventually saw him ...

New details in the case leave little doubt that he did in fact counterfeit the poker chips and used them at an Iowa casino, according to a report from Omaha.com. Pottawattamie County prosecutor ...

The semiconductor shortage has allowed counterfeit chips to flood the market. Bill Cardoso of Creative Electron X-rays the devices to tell which are real. Let’s talk about computer chips. We ...