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===First announcements=== The first flawed capacitors linked to [[Taiwan]]ese raw material problems were reported by the specialist magazine ''Passive Component Industry'' in September 2002.<ref name= Paumanok/> Shortly thereafter, two mainstream electronics journals reported the discovery of widespread prematurely failing capacitors, from Taiwanese manufacturers, in motherboards.<ref name= "EDN">{{cite journal |last1= Sperling |first1= Ed |last2= Soderstrom |first2= Thomas |last3= Holzman |first3= Carey |title= Got Juice? |journal= [[EE Times]] |date= October 2002 |url= http://www.edn.com/electronics-news/4347300/Got-Juice- |access-date= 11 February 2014 |archive-date= 28 February 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140228054158/http://www.edn.com/electronics-news/4347300/Got-Juice- |url-status= live }}</ref><ref name= "Feb2003Spectrum"/> These publications informed engineers and other technically interested specialists, but the issue did not receive widespread public exposure until Carey Holzman published his experiences about "leaking capacitors" in the [[overclocking]] performance community.<ref>Carey Holzman, Overclockers, Capacitors: Not Just For Abit Owners, Motherboards with leaking capacitors, 10/9, 2002, [http://www.overclockers.com/capacitors-not-just-for-abit-owners/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018033035/http://www.overclockers.com/capacitors-not-just-for-abit-owners|date=18 October 2014}}</ref>
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