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12 years ago

Are these counterfeit devices ????

Hi All,

We have recently starting having many problems and failures from new of the EPM7128 FPGA devices.

I have enclosed a photo of just two of our failures, and even though the top of the devices are both labelled up with identical numbers/batch numbers etc, I am wondering why the bottom of the devices are stamped with different countries(Philipines/Korea).

To me this would indicate a classic fake device, but can anyone out there verify these as outright fakes at all ???

Thanks Very Much.

Al.

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https://www.alteraforum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=9286

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    Altera_Forum
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    12 years ago

    I can't verify that they are fakes, but have different countries of package manufacture, and have then same batch numbers on both sounds suspicious.

    I know Altera has had issues with counterfits in the past.

    They probably do have multiple sources for packages, but I would assume the markings would be sligthly different between package houses.

    Pete