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Week 19 Analysis
Physical Inspection acceptance rates climbed again in Week 19 to 85% from Week 18's 67%, a high for the year. Electrical testing results dipped a point to 79% on record volume for the year, up 98% from the previous week.
This marks the fifth straight week of a general upward trajectory in product quality. This is consistent with what we have seen as a trend in the market - buyers becoming more knoweldgeable of the measures and methods required to identify substandard and counterfeit electronics, and the penalties becoming more severe for delivering those products to an end-user.
In my opinion, the highest risk devices are still both passive and active discrete devices, such as capacitors and transistors.
Mark A. Rinehart
Managing Director
White Horse Laboratories |
