Shenzhen authorities have dismantled a counterfeit chip operation that allegedly sold reclaimed and rebranded integrated circuits as premium imports from Infineon, Texas Instruments, and other Western semiconductor firms. According to reporting by the South China Morning Post, police spent four months investigating the ring, which resurfaced discarded chips, laser-polished their markings, and re-labeled them with high-spec part numbers before distributing them through shell companies posing as foreign…
