Quote Originally Posted by NobleMetalWorks View Post
If you are planning on selling your ICs Proms and Eproms to people who are going to refine them, I wouldn't crack them open to show what's on the inside. Once you do, it's difficult to tell if it's an IC, Prom or Eprom and all the refiner has to go on is your word. And as we all know, when dealing with precious metals, everyone believes everyone else is attempting to rip them off.
If my wording sounded as if I were advocating breaking them open, I apologize. My thinking was simply that others might want to know that there are chips out there as valuable as gold windows even though they do not have a window. Personally speaking, if I see ones that have the oxide layer in place, they're going in a different bucket from now on.