Kyle,
This is normal, don't be surprised. Welcome to the world of OEM. Original Equipment
Manufacturer. Many things you see around the house or in the office with a "Brand"
on it, was probably sold to you, mostly for the Brand value. The actual device
was manufactured "to order" by some other outfit that won the bid to make it
to the original specs. They put the "Brand" sticker on it, if it passes the inspection
to be as good as the original Brand and then ship it for distribution.
Same with Chips and IC's. One Major manufacturer needs 10MM of the gate arrays
and bids them out to Malaysia. They make the parts there, stamp US Semiconductor
Brand Names on them to order and ship them back here.
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http://www.national.com/pf/LM/LM4894.html
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http://www.national.com/news/item/0,1735,678,00.html
Chris Morgenstern
chrismorgen@gmx.net
---- "Kyle Barrow" <kyle@X-9.com> wrote:
> I don't think you can clearly know who is actually making what based on
> chip labels for the reason I mentioned earlier.
>
> I have been to the semi-conductor plant of one major manufacturer where
> they produce phone video chips and was quite surprised to see the brands
> that actually get printed on the outside.
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