The clone
Hey guys , I have a usb hub which is branded as usb 3.0 , which it is not as the usb has only 4 pads which could explain the price of 100rs which i now know is too high. Why ? because the chip used in this pcb is a 0.85 yen priced IC which is about 0.60rs , considering the plactic case all other components it may come to about max 50 which is still half the price i paid. But here writing this post i dont regret it. I researched for this IC a little bit and I found that this IC was a chinese clone of another banded chinese IC which is much more costly about 127 rs . The cloning company used the original IC datasheet for their product . It is literally amazing how the managed to achieve this kind of price drop in their product. The clone HS8831 The original IC HS8836A