It could have come from a factory making NAND for Apple or some third-party vendor ripping them from defective iPhones. However, the YouTuber suspects the former since the quality appears to have a level of professionalism.
It sounds like this is just binning with the added step of reselling the lower quality parts to other manufacturers rather than building your own products around them.
Binning is nothing bad, it is actually great practice and the only way that the consumer PC parts market can work. It allows the cost of components to be kept down through economies of scale, and ensures that parts that aren’t quite perfect are still useful and don’t just end up in landfill. Binning is pro-consumer and pro-environment.
It’s interesting to see the output of the interconnected supply chains, but otherwise this is kind of a nothing-burger.
It sounds like this is just binning with the added step of reselling the lower quality parts to other manufacturers rather than building your own products around them.
Binning is nothing bad, it is actually great practice and the only way that the consumer PC parts market can work. It allows the cost of components to be kept down through economies of scale, and ensures that parts that aren’t quite perfect are still useful and don’t just end up in landfill. Binning is pro-consumer and pro-environment.
It’s interesting to see the output of the interconnected supply chains, but otherwise this is kind of a nothing-burger.