Good source for SOIC clips

[Elena ``of Valhalla'']

Hello

at FOSDEM this year I stopped at the Coreboot stand and I mentioned that
I was having problems finding a 16 pin SOIC clip to flash coreboot on
my thinkpad x200.

The person at the stand said that somebody in the project knows a
chinese website which sells those clips at a significantly lower price
than the usual ones, and that this information could be shared someway 
on the website / mailing list.

Does anybody know which website is that?

Thanks in advance

[thomasg]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Elena ``of Valhalla'' <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hello
>
> at FOSDEM this year I stopped at the Coreboot stand and I mentioned that
> I was having problems finding a 16 pin SOIC clip to flash coreboot on
> my thinkpad x200.
>
> The person at the stand said that somebody in the project knows a
> chinese website which sells those clips at a significantly lower price
> than the usual ones, and that this information could be shared someway
> on the website / mailing list.
>
> Does anybody know which website is that?
> Thanks in advance
>
> Elena ``of Valhalla''

There are a number of chinese websites offering cheap SOIC clips, the most
widely known is probably Alibaba/Aliexpress:
http://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=&SearchTex...

These are certainly much cheaper than the expensive ones available in the
"west" - though I don't know if the quality is adequate.
Should you order some it would probably be interesting to give feedback on
that.

I don't see the need to explicitly promote a specific website on coreboots
web presence as these are easy enough to find, and even the Pomona clips
aren't that expensive anymore.

[Alvaro G. [andor]]

Oh! That'd be awesome to program some other things I have around :D

El 19/3/16 a las 18:42, Elena ``of Valhalla'' escribió:
> Hello
>
> at FOSDEM this year I stopped at the Coreboot stand and I mentioned that
> I was having problems finding a 16 pin SOIC clip to flash coreboot on
> my thinkpad x200.
>
> The person at the stand said that somebody in the project knows a
> chinese website which sells those clips at a significantly lower price
> than the usual ones, and that this information could be shared someway
> on the website / mailing list.
>
> Does anybody know which website is that?
>
> Thanks in advance