This could be a smokescreen for the reverse-engineers.
It could also be second sourcing of parts, which makes
them more marketable. Or the pretense of second-
sourcing. And for all we know, a lot of the
chips in a mobile phone in Japan were designed
elsewhere. Chip labels? It's all just ink -- a very
inexpensive communications technology which
historically has been used to express the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me G--
[lightning bolt chars his fingers beyond recognition.]
I'd help solve this mystery, but my scanning electron
microscope is in the shop for repairs.
Not to mention that I'm typing this with my nose, now
-michael turner
leap@gol.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kyle Barrow" <kyle@X-9.com>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 8:50 AM
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Keitai components
> It looks like the same chips with different names depending on what
> phones they where destined to end up in although I would need to confirm
> this.
>
>
> Kyle
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> -----Original Message-----
>
> Are you saying that they put different brand names on identical chips,
> or that they make several different chips and brand them with the names
> of the companies that designed them? It would make sense to me that
> chips are printed with the name of the company that designs them, not
> the manufacturer.
>
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