No that chip is still present in Samsung printers !!
It is still not present in HP printers though -- For samsung printers you can short the EPROM's pins so that page counting will stop i.e. it will permanently become to zero i.e it will reset the page count everytime the printer is booted !! So you can print 1500 pages in a single go then just restart your printer & page count will become zero !!
For eg: Samsung ML 1640 :