Editing Capacitor plague (section)

===Responsibility===
In the November/December 2002 issue of ''Passive Component Industry'', following its initial story about defective electrolyte, reported that some large Taiwanese manufacturers of electrolytic capacitors were denying responsibility for defective products.<ref name=Liotta>{{cite journal|first1=Bettyann |last1=Liotta |title=Taiwanese Cap Makers Deny Responsibility |journal=Passive Component Industry |date=November 2002 |volume=4 |number=6 |pages=6, 8–10 |url=http://old.passivecomponentmagazine.com/files/archives/2002/PCI_02_06Nov-Dec.pdf |accessdate=2015-11-03 |publisher=Paumanok Publications |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151120065846/http://old.passivecomponentmagazine.com/files/archives/2002/PCI_02_06Nov-Dec.pdf |archivedate=20 November 2015}}</ref>

While industrial customers confirmed the failures, they were not able to trace the source of the faulty components. The defective capacitors were marked with previously unknown brands such as "Tayeh", "Choyo", or "Chhsi".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.opencircuits.com/Capacitor_plague |title=Capacitor plague, identifizierte Hersteller (~identified vendors) |publisher=Opencircuits.com |date=2012-01-10 |accessdate=2014-09-03 |archive-date=11 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150311101131/http://www.opencircuits.com/Capacitor_plague |url-status=dead }}</ref> The marks were not easily linked to familiar companies or product brands.

The motherboard manufacturer ABIT Computer Corp. was the only affected manufacturer that publicly admitted to defective capacitors obtained from Taiwan capacitor makers being used in its products.<ref name=Liotta/> However, the company would not reveal the name of the capacitor maker that supplied the faulty products.