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To do that the chip would have to be designed to have that feature already. Otherwise it's like looking at a bicycle and wishing you could repurpose it into bei
by nwh 13y ago
To do that the chip would have to be designed to have that feature already. Otherwise it's like looking at a bicycle and wishing you could repurpose it into being a plane. The structure is just not there to do that sort of modification.
- dllthomas 13y agoHopefully they can recycle the raw materials, and can build upon the designs.
- nwh 13y agoEh, not really. I don't think any form of electronics is recyclable, best you probably get is third world countries burning the boards to get the gold out and killing themselves with the gases produced.
- dllthomas 13y agoI said (and stressed) "hopefully" - I understand it's not mostly the case presently.
- jjoonathan 13y agoThe raw material is worthless. It's the processing that is expensive.
- SolarNet 13y agoWell some of it can be recycled, like rare metals, but you are right that the majority of the value is in the combination of those raw materials, rather than the materials themselves.
- dllthomas 13y agoAnd of course as technology advances, both actual composition and what can and cannot be usefully recycled will change.