Kazim Isfahani, an analyst at Giga Information Group Inc. in Cambridge, Mass.

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Giga Information Group, a Massachusetts consultancy, reckons that 5% of all embedded chips which could amount to millions of devices will fail the date test.

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"It might be the only effective tool available to some companies, " says Philip Murphy, a senior advisor at Giga Information Systems, in Norwell, Mass.

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