[chipweinberger]

IMO it's better to ship preprogrammed ICs to the factory, so you can do your secure burning in-house.

[swiftcoder]

Depends on where the ICs originally come from. No point shipping your ICs from China -> US, flashing them, shipping them back US -> China for assembly, and then ship them China -> US again to sell

[Teknomadix]

Yet people do this all the time. Ask me how I know.

[thenthenthen]

Can reply to the reply below but yeah, i have done that, lol