What is Counterfeit chip?

A used, defective or lower-grade chip relabeled and sold as genuine, leading to failures and safety problems.

Field: Hardware Security

Related terms

Anti-rollback protection Cold boot attack Constant-time implementation eFuse Fault injection attack Hardware Trojan Kernel page-table isolation (KPTI) Measured boot Meltdown Physically unclonable function (PUF)

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