While working as an Engineer for over 2 years within walking distance to Huaqiangbei, I discovered there's a dark side to the SEG market that a tour guide is no

While working as an Engineer for over 2 years within walking distance to Huaqiangbei, I discovered there's a dark side to the SEG market that a tour guide is not going to point out. This is also where much of the grey market and fake ICs end up. Our company wasted weeks and thousands of dollars trying to save time by using some SEG parts to speed up the production of an EVT board last year. SEG also caters heavily to the shanzhai phone manufactures.