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  • Chumby investigates Kingston microSD irregularities: Are counterfeit chips making their way into the supply chain?

    Chumby investigates Kingston microSD irregularities: Are counterfeit chips making their way into the supply chain?

    Does the name Bunnie Huang ring a bell? It might if you were around the Xbox "scene" in 2002, when people from all over the world were on Xbox hacking forums trying to figure out what made Microsoft's first console tick, so to speak. It was truly exciting—we're talking Paris in the 50s exciting. Mr. Huang has since gotten a job at Chumby, putting his technical know-how to good use and helping to create the adorable little clock-widget-thing. While in China, Mr. Huang discovered a problem with a number of Kingston-branded microSD cards that were to be used in Chumby production. The problem was that they were counterfeit, or "irregular" in the measured parlance of the blog post.

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