Electronics

What We Do

Applied DNA’s marks offer a breakthrough solution to the “growing deluge of millions of counterfeit chips posing peril to the U.S. military and the general public”. Utilizing botanical DNA to forensically ID microelectronics is the ultimate weapon to foil counterfeiters.
 
 
 
On September 9, 2010, Homeland Security Newswire published an article “Fake chips from China threaten U.S. military systems” in which a U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimate finds that the global market for counterfeit electronics may be as large as $10 billion. While these references include daunting statistics, the underlying problem has not changed because there is no satisfactory technological solution. Currently, the ways to detect counterfeits are:
  1. Paperwork Review
  2. Visual Inspection
  3. Reliability Testing
These methodologies are inadequate: paperwork is often fraudulent as it is in the promulgation of fake drugs; visual inspection is superficial and lacks the resolution necessary to unveil a good counterfeit; reliability testing is expensive and demanding, and could never keep up with demand. For these reasons, APDN has been aggressively escalating the development of DNA markers that can forensically protect all electronic components - semiconductors, microchips, printed circuit boards (PCBs), resistors, capacitors, routers, etc.
 
      
 
 
DNA-marking protects the consumer, the government, our service men and women. The manufacturers can ensure that only properly screened, original product goes to users. The same DNA marking can then protect the manufacturers themselves in the form of returned product which they must replace or repair. Broadly applicable, DNA marking could be disseminated as industry best practices and military standards.
 
APDN's President and CEO, Dr. James Hayward, has presented DNA-marking as a solution at several national meetings attended by industry and the military. On August 30, 2010, Dr. Hayward spoke at the IMAPS (International Microelectronics and Packaging Society) High-Reliability Microelectronics for Military Applications Conference in Bethesda, MD. Intense audience interest provoked follow-up meetings to demonstrate how the DNA marks can offer unparalleled solutions for government agencies and original component manufacturers.

Your ROI

“The military and circuit integrators can not be blamed for the poisoning of supply chains when chip manufacture is available in abundance by countries intent on stealing IP and riding the coattails of other’s marketing investments. But DNA is an opportunity to draw a line in the sand, to stop the progress of this problem today,” proclaimed Dr. James A Hayward, President and CEO of APDN.

Case Studies

APDN has successfully completed a program to DNA mark microchips for the Defense Logistics Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense. Used systematically, DNA marking could greatly mitigate the risk of counterfeit microchips, which might be defective and possibly dangerous, from entry at any point in the Department of Defense’s supply chain.
 
The initial results were so successful that APDN has already been awarded a follow-on contract of almost $1 million to fully engage one of the government’s microchip supply chains.
 
An Original Chip Manufacturer marked 100% of its production for a period of two months. The microchips themselves were scanned at the Original Chip Manufacturer facility, the DNA-marked outer packaging was scanned at a Distributor. In a blind sampling, where both marked and unmarked chips were sampled, forensic analysis confirmed the authenticity of products DNA-marked as genuine.
 
Results:
  • 100% distinction was made between DNA-marked and unmarked product and packaging
  • 100% forensic authentication of DNA-marked product and packaging
  • No change was necessary to the production process
  • No adverse impact to mark-permanency quality assurance test results at the Original Chip Manufacturer
  • Marks were rapidly scanned without difficulty at both the Original Chip Manufacturer and the distributor
  • Marking was entirely non-destructive, as planned
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