At 03:11 PM 5/23/2005 -0400, you wrote:

>http://www.maxim-ic.com/company/hijackedparts/
>
>This release on Maxim's web site confirms details of a truck
>hijacking in which $2.2 million worth of marked, but untested,
>Maxim parts were stolen.

By a customer fed up with long lead times? ;-)

They've apparently been exported from Malaysia and are for sale elsewhere
in Asia.

http://in.biz.yahoo.com/050518/138/5yl3v.html

You might want to warn your Buyers to
source their stuff only through authorized channels.  The
article reports that the stollen chips could have a failure rate
of 30%  !!

"Could". Hmmm..

Best regards,

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