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How soon can we expect them to just use soldered BGA chips on desktops and servers? Works really well for laptops - motherboard fried? Just throw that CPU, GPU
by bserge 6y ago
How soon can we expect them to just use soldered BGA chips on desktops and servers?
Works really well for laptops - motherboard fried? Just throw that CPU, GPU, RAM and VRAM away, and buy a new one! You're not rich enough to pay for its repair, are you?
Justified by thinness for consumers and security for corporate. What a terrible practice.
- intricatedetail 6y agoMaybe it was the case few years ago, but now the rework equipment is quite affordable. It is certainly within hobbyist reach now to e.g replace BGA chip. That's why they rather go into "security" excuse as this sort of stuff cannot be easily bypassed.