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What You Can Do Now About Semiconductor Counterfeiting

If you’re “in the industry,” you’ve seen a flurry of articles recently about the Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing on Counterfeit Electronic Parts in the Department of Defense (DOD)supply chain. The hearing addressed the March 2011 investigation into counterfeit electronic parts in the DOD supply chain. The hearing revealed bad news and good news, but for once, it seems that the good news may be winning.

Report Reveals Mobile Security Exploits to Double in 2011

IBM today released the results of its X-Force 2011 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report, which demonstrates the rapidly changing security landscape characterized by high-profile attacks, growing mobile vulnerabilities and more sophisticated threats such as “whaling.”

Speed Demons
Speed Demons

Technology today doesn’t gradually evolve, it develops in leaps and bounds, and the processes that are necessary to bring that technology to market have advanced just as quickly. Unfortunately, sometimes speed can be our industry’s downfall -- when companies are caught in a bind; when parts are hard to come by, whether they have

Counterfeits Threaten Security and Thwart Innovation
Counterfeits Threaten Security and Thwart Innovation

Due to their much higher failure rate versus genuine equipment, counterfeits pose a threat not just to consumer safety but also to national security - because when they fail the entire systems in which they are embedded may also fail.

Mouser Electronics Receives AS9120A Certification for its High-Level Traceability and Anti-Counterfeit Controls

Mouser Electronics, Inc. announced that it has completed the rigorous audits to be registered as an AS9120A Distributor. AS9120A is a quality management certification for distributors of aerospace commodity items. This high standard addresses

Best Practices for Combating Counterfeit Components

SiliconExpert has worked alongside the University of Maryland CALCE (calce.umd.edu) and our own customers to create a list of best practices used by OEMs and contract manufacturers to combat counterfeits. This article summarizes

Inovar Joins the Coalition Against Counterfeiting and Piracy
Inovar Joins the Coalition Against Counterfeiting and Piracy

Inovar, dedicated to providing quality services and flexible solutions to OEMs in the fastest growing segments of the electronic industry, is now registered with the Coalition Against Counterfeiting and Piracy (CACP).

Fake parts in U.S. military
Fake parts in U.S. military

A new study shows nearly 40% of the U.S. military's supply chain is made up of counterfeit parts.

AWR Corporation Wins Partial Summary Judgment Against ZTE Corporation

AWR announced that it won its motion for partial summary judgment against ZTE Corporation, the largest publically-traded Chinese telecommunications company.

Counterfeit Electronic Component Detection & Avoidance

Join us for a free 60 minute webinar with Dr. Diganta Das from the University of Maryland's CALCE.

Dungeons and Dragons Dice Gauntlet
Dungeons and Dragons Dice Gauntlet

Feb 3

The D&D bracer is a fairly quick, fun, nerdy LilyPad project. The final product is a wearable bracer with a display that will randomly generate numbers between 1 and 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 20, or 100 in response to arm movement, so it can effectively replace all of the dice in your bag for a D&D session.

Sustainable?
Sustainable?

Feb 2

I'd like some genius to define sustainable. Could we count something that we can keep doing for 100 billion years - beyond the death of the Universe as we currently understand such things - as sustainable? How about a billion years?

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