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Why are counterfeit components found in every corner of the world, even the Pentagon of the United States is not immune, and the military and aerospace industries have all suffered from counterfeit components? The story begins from here.
E-waste history
• The development of science and technology has accelerated the upgrading of electronic products, and electronic waste has become a serious problem that the world cannot escape.
• 62 million tons of e-waste were generated globally in 2022. Each person in the world generates 7.8 kilograms of e-waste every year. It may reach a staggering 82 million tons in 2030.
• In the past few decades, China once became the world's largest "e-waste dump". These e-waste were sorted, dismantled, sorted, recycled or burned and buried. There are a large number of components on the circuit boards of electronic products.
• The most valuable part of electronic waste are disassembled through methods such as "burning boards", and the disassembled component parts are sold as gold that can be extracted from them (later components have almost no gold content), however To maximize the benefits of dismantled components, the components must be refurbished and sold back to the component circulation market. This is also one of the factors causing the proliferation of fakes.
• Since 2018, the Chinese government has begun to refuse to adopt e-waste, and these e-waste has begun to flow to other countries in Southeast Asia. In any case, these electronic waste recycling is an important way for fake and inferior components.
The result of low-price competition in consumer goods
• In fact, electronic waste is not the main reason for counterfeit chips. The key reason is that.As electronic consumer goods and equipment are updated faster and faster, competitions becomes more and more fierce, a large number of electronic manufacturers have to join the price war camp. This has led to many manufacturers consciously or unconsciously accepting fake and shoddy electronic products to enter their production lines, providing them with low-cost component materials, allowing their products to have profit margins in the fiercely competition market, so fake chip's existence is due to demand of market.
The improvement and evolution of counterfeiting technology
• The technology of counterfeiting chips has improved so fast that far beyond many people’s imagination.Many people only think about counterfeit and shoddy components at the level of refurbished components, but they may not know that with the development over the years, counterfeit components are developing in various forms, which is beyond everyone’s imagination, and even faster than detection method.
• Nowadays, many counterfeit components are not old or used electronic products, but brand new ones. Their functions are similar to the original products, and they use special counterfeiting technology to achieve the same appearance as the original brand and flow to the market. When using this kind of In the early stages of the product, customers may not notice any problems, because there are no refurbishing or used from the appearance. However, after a long time, many problems will be discovered, such as: the temperature of the equipment in extreme environments is not enough, precision inspection. If a medical device has an error or a test result with a large error, the product will burst and the product will be damaged if the voltage is within the component standard range. If used in vehicles, it may even be fatal.
corruption problem
• Some electronic components do not enter the manufacturer's production line through normal channels., to certain corrupt procurement environments, some components easily passed QC inspection and entered the company. The quality process set up by the company is in name only.
It’s not necessarily a matter of usage
• They exist because they are difficult to identify. ICONE uses a combination of digital management through dynamic channels, a rich" sample library "and detection technology to prevent fake components from falling into the hands of customers.
