You can buy one Intel Pentium III chip here; you can buy hundreds in bulk. And those bulk orders of chips don’t come from home PCs “recycled” in the United States. Rather, they come from containers of obsolete computers sent in bulk to Guiyu from businesses in China and all over the world; they come from defective motherboards that a manufacturer sold in the process of cleaning out a warehouse. None of these chips are going to Japan for refining. Rather, they’re all destined for reuse in new products.
