I don't think I concur that Bloomberg being right helps DHS. I can totally think of reasons that DHS would want to avoid panic. In your experience working with DHS, is it normal for them to deny a statement not directly involving them like this?
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So now I’m expected to believe they either wire bonded this chip in place (which isn’t a machine that exists on the line normally), or they splurged massively on super precision PCBs?
Apparently they're saying "not much bigger than a grain of sand"... which can mean anything, really. Apparently anything up to 2mm qualifies as a grain of sand, and a SOT23 is "not much bigger" than that.
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Fair, but unless there's Vcc, Gnd, MISO and SCLK conveniently in a ~4mm^2 area where you can easily place this chip, you're going to have to modify the PCB (doable) or run jumpers. Just... why? Plenty of space in that EEPROM package.
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Yeah, it's dumb. Doable, but dumb. The traces are all neatly on that SOIC8 footprint, so it would make sense if they just used that, but reworking the gerbers to shrink it a bit? Eh. Then again, TBH, I think Bloomberg doesn't have the slightest clue how big the real chip is.
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