Get the latest tech news
Here’s one Japanese store’s enterprising method of selling broken Intel chips — for less than $5
Would you like to get your hands on an Intel CPU for less than 5% of its full cost? Of course, you would.
As detailed by YouTuber Sawara-San, for the modest sum of 500 Yen (roughly $3.25), you can walk away with a CPU, or as many as you want to fill your pockets with. Further testing and diagnosis using Windows Task Manager revealed the Intel chip, as with all others on display, comes with significant faults. Governments and big tech must answer the bigger questions on e-waste but if, meantime, a few chips can find a new home and a longer lifespan, they still serve a purpose.
Or read this on ReadWrite