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Re:Reverse engineering a counterfeit 7805 voltage regulator by YZF on Saturday September 06, 2014 @02:26PM (#8279047)
It's probably <<10 cents in quantity though and most mass produced electronics would use something smaller or more efficient (well, it has to be more efficient if you want to go smaller) if they even use a linear regulator at all. What would the total world wide market for 7805 be today? A few million parts a year? As a counterfeiter you'd have a few % of that market? Maybe worthwhile as part of a larger counterfeiting operation if you have the flexibility to make a lot of different chips in a lot of different packages but investing a lot of engineering effort in this specific single chip is almost certainly not worthwhile.
Re:Reverse engineering a counterfeit 7805 voltage regulator by sitkack on Saturday September 06, 2014 @07:15PM (#8279816)
Why silkscreen your own brand when could silkscreen ST or National? I could move a whole lot more Nike than I could Mercury.