Press Release

YFL elite to offer Chip Authentication Technology - calls industry to join Counter Chip Counterfeit efforts

Counterfeiting of electronic components is a growing threat to legitimate IP owners in the electronics industry, solutions for countering chip counterfeitings may have become a necessity in the world today.

Source: YFL elite
4/1/2009

As have been very well portrayed by the Electronic Business Contributing Editor Rob Spiegel in the "Counterfeit components remains a huge electronics supply chain problem" on 3/3/2009:

"Most industry experts claim the problem is escalating and note that while the federal government and several industry associations have taken measures to limit counterfeiting, it continues to plague the electronics supply chain." - Rob Spiegel

Counterfeiting of electronic components is a growing threat to legitimate IP owners in the electronics industry today. Globalization of manufacturing has driven prices down, but has also advanced the means and tools for much more sophisticated counterfeiting than the world could ever imagine before. Reusing e-wastes is already an unnecessary and a rather outdated way of counterfeiting electronic parts. It is much easier to profit from production overage than to earn the OEM or ODM margins the hard way. It is probably just as easy to transfer entire design and layouts to other similarly equipped facilities at less legally constrained places, and reap even heftier profits for even less risks. Counterfeiters of the electronics industry are so much more resourceful and smarter than any mafia the history has ever seen. Today's chips can literally be copied; just like how softwares used to be - and still are - so vulnerable to piracies. There should be no reason why protections shall not be implemented to protect chips' IP. So, perhaps, time has come for the electronics industry to learn a lesson from the software industries in making an effort in protecting the IP; solutions for countering chip counterfeitings may have become a necessity in the world today.

YFL elite believe our Chip Authentication Technology (CAT) can be a spearhead in the Counter Chip Counterfeit (C³-x-feit) efforts.

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