BillyO, I found a picture of what seems to be your project with IC from "Texas instruments" that is not from TI at all but has a very common Chinese imitation of TI logo.
Why are you dragging me back into this insane argument? I know damn well it's counterfeit. I used it because it has the best specification for the job. As I said before, as you well know as you made a comment on it, "At the very minimum I test them to meet the specifications pertinent to my application."
This chip did. It gave a rise time of 1ns, the genuine TI part lagged behind at 1.7nS. Does it match every specification on the TI spec sheet? I couldn't give a duck's fart. I didn't need it to. I needed it to have a fast rise time which the genuine TI part did not give me. Does that mean it's a fake 74AC14? Probably not, just a better one for my needs than the logo suggests.
Are you going to cyber-stalk some more, or are we done with this useless endeavor?