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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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.
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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Maybe it was on the SOIC8 but they're referring to the die size. That could ALMOST make sense. I guess.
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I have a theory that they got told it was "disguised as a signal conditioning coupler" (which *could* be a SOIC8 transformer) and all the size stuff is based on them Googling that and buying a tiny ceramic RF coupler for phones on digikey and making a photoshoot out of it.
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