There is a wide disparity between different organizations’ assessments of the revenue and job losses caused by counterfeit chips.
In 2017, the US Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) pegged the losses at $170 billion.
That same year, the Semiconductor Industry Association estimated that counterfeit chips cost the chip industry $7.5 billion annually. [Read more…] about Fake chips have been around forever, so how can manufacturers fight them?