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Water-soluble circuit boards could cut carbon footprints by 60 percent | Engadget (www.engadget.com)

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German semiconductor maker Infineon Technologies AG announced that it’s producing a printed circuit board (PCB) that dissolves in water.

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[–] snooggums@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Water soluble means weak to humidity and more likely to fail early. At the waste step it sounds great, but assuming that it is likely to just create more e-waste as a tradeoff is a reasonable reaction.