[onerng talk] Putting Inf Noise on Tindie in non-competitive way?

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Thu Oct 30 19:52:55 GMT 2014


Paul Campbell <paul at taniwha.com> writes:

>I would really encourage designers to avoid the FTDI serial chips at the
>moment - largely because of the whole issue of counterfeit devices and FTDI's
>recent complete over reaction to the problem

The problem with this is that the most common alternative to FTDI is the
crappy Prolific PL2303 and its even crappier Chinese clones.  No matter how
bad FTDI gets, it'll still be better than Prolific.

Peter.


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