Yes, and to be fair, they later (in response to the public outrage) changed their mind and updated the update so that they became un-bricked, as long as you were still in the game at that point...
On 10/26/2014 11:56 AM, Mike wrote:
On 10/26/2014 07:03 AM, Larry DiGioia wrote:Here <http://www.zdnet.com/ftdi-admits-to-bricking-innocent-users-chips-in-silent-update-7000035019/> is another strange-but-true story of why those pesky serial-to-USB converters don't always work...Interesting. I wouldn't be surprised if I had some fake ones in use. The nagging question for me would be how to tell if it's real or a clone. Surely a whole lot of the stuff on ebay, dx, and similar sites is made with cloned chips. The prices are just too low in most cases. The only comfort I get is that it only affects Windows...Mike
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