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Corporate Espionage Leads To Faulty Motherboards

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the cowboyneal-is-too-lazy-to-make-a-dept dept.

Champs writes "If you've gotten the feeling that they really don't make 'em like they used to, you might be right. This article at IEEE Spectrum tells the story of large batches of faulty capacitors sourced from Taiwan causing motherboards to eventually fail, with an interesting twist on the reason why these capacitors failed."

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  1. DUPE by man_ls · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I have never posted "dupe" before, but this is the _third_ time in recent history that I've seen this story.

    Don't you people ever check the current articles?

    Seriously...

  2. Faulty Capacitors on CowboyNeal by Limburgher · · Score: 1, Redundant

    This may have resulted in the duplicate post. Slashdot engineers are investigating. . .

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