[coreboot] Good source for SOIC clips

[thomasg]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Elena ``of Valhalla'' <
valhalla-l at trueelena.org> 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''
>
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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=&SearchText=SOIC+clip

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.

--
thomasg
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