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Re:TSMC sees chip shortage lasting into 2022 by pvarangot on Thursday April 15, 2021 @04:15PM (#26825585)
Old-new stock and "unofficial" chips and parts has been a thing for like ever. Now I hear of more "mainstream" projects having to tap into that market but it has always been there.
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Re:TSMC sees chip shortage lasting into 2022 by salmo on Thursday April 15, 2021 @07:03PM (#26827274)
My boss at an internship bought like 20 NE2000 NICs for cheap somewhere in the late 1990's. We were confused when we would plug a second one in and it all went to heck no matter which 2 NICs we used.

We realized they all had the same MAC address. So we just overrode the MAC in the OS and got them to work.

Someone cloned a card perfectly :)

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Re:TSMC sees chip shortage lasting into 2022 by makomk on Thursday April 15, 2021 @07:11PM (#26827331)
This happens a lot with cheap clone Bluetooth dongles for some reason - they all have the same MAC address, or one of a handful of addresses with some of the newer ones.
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Re:TSMC sees chip shortage lasting into 2022 by simlevesque on Thursday April 15, 2021 @07:37PM (#26827511)
> Old-new stock

Most commonly referred to as New-old stock (NOS).

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