FTDI driver kills fake FTDI FT232s
Does anyone know of good FTDI alternatives? Are there any clone makers that are relatively legit (i.e. they put their actual brand name on the chip, they support drivers, etc)? At $4.50 a pop for bog-standard bit-banging in a day and age where you can get ARM M4 SoCs for $2.75 a pop (n=1 prices) I would think FTDI would have more above-the-table competition than they do.<p>Is the subterfuge required for illegitimate cloning really that much easier than getting a website, writing docs, and supporting drivers?!