The whole Steam Deck is $400 so its chip is not that expensive
Again, how are you going to repair something where a 12 nanometer chip burned out?
A human hair is 18000 to 80000 nanometers. And 12 nm is “older” as far as processes go.
So even if that third party repair center had an x-ray machine and a REALLY powerful microscope and could diagnose if there was damage? They aren’t able to actually repair it.
Which means they are replacing chips. Which, in the case of an SOC, is the entire chip (the black/grey box). So… maybe you can save the PCB (the green part) but that costs next to nothing and… do you really want to hope that a 600-1000 dollar chip was properly installed so that you can save 10-20 bucks on the board?
Which gets back to “okay, replace the entire board” which is increasingly “okay, replace the entire device except the plastic shell”.
iopq@lemmy.world 1 year ago
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s one hell of a straw man you have going there. Most people would just unsolder the chip from the circuit board and replace it with another one, or just replace the whole circuit board at once.
You’re not being intellectually honest in trying to argue the other side of this topic.