Auction-style site aims to thwart grey market

Semicentral.com aims to offer an applicable service to the electronics supply chain for the trade of excess inventory and looks to its users to ensure against counterfeit product.

By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News -- Electronic Business, 5/5/2008

Looking to counter the grey market’s counterfeit component issues, an online electronics supply chain service is aiming to bring together chip manufactures, OEMs, CEMs, and franchise distribution in an auction-style community.