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Chips pulled off dumped PCBs and then sold, due to the "chip shortage"?
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Faringdon:
Hi,
Due to the chip shortage, are  there places where old scrap PCBs are haveing chips de-soldered from them, and then the chips cleaned up, and then sold on as new?
langwadt:
there's money to be made so of course there is, and it isn't new, the shortage just makes it more profitable
mikeselectricstuff:

--- Quote from: Faringdon on August 29, 2022, 10:13:36 pm ---Hi,
Due to the chip shortage, are  there places where old scrap PCBs are haveing chips de-soldered from them, and then the chips cleaned up, and then sold on as new?

--- End quote ---
That was happening way before the shortage, especially for things like phone & laptop parts for repair
 More profitable now....
tom66:
We've had FPGAs pulled off scrap boards that are from our own production, because these FPGAs are worth £250 each greymarket (£50 normally)

It's feasible to do this because removing and reballing a small BGA costs about £50.   We use a small facility in Edinburgh to do this.   But, normally the board would just be e-waste.  These parts are only used internally, mind, for R&D or marketing units.  We don't trust them enough to ship to customers.
MT:

--- Quote from: Faringdon on August 29, 2022, 10:13:36 pm ---Hi,
Due to the chip shortage, are  there places where old scrap PCBs are haveing chips de-soldered from them, and then the chips cleaned up, and then sold on as new?

--- End quote ---
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