Theres definitely less Gold in post 2003 boards & chips.
Theres 1/2 or even 1/4 of the chips on the side ( Zeus ?) board of a plasma & plasma screen TV's are not around anymore anyway.
The multiple boards once in a DVD player or computer printer, then it become a post card sized board, now its a playing card sized board & in my last printer i almost missed seeing it.
In the long sensor/scanner/reader bar in a printer its obvious, it once was 220+ thick Gold wires.
Now it hair thin, spiderweb thin even, 80 wires.
CPU....ha! Once was 0.45gms on a 'Triple Gold' now its 0.01-2gms on a pinless CPU.
What I'm meaning, is that current escrap prices are probably based on 80 - 100 CPU to the Gram of Gold.
Not the 4 CPU to a Gram that it once was.
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