From there, some general soldering tools like flux and solder wick, a stencil for your chip, BGA balls, and a $20 USB-C hotplate are instrumental for reballing chips – tools you ought to have.

What takes it beyond the norm though is the reballing process ... It’s certainly not the first BGA memory swap we’ve brought you.

The listings mention CPU reball jigs or reballing stations for the BGA 1516 socket, measuring 35 x 25 mm, the same socket that supports these new Wildcat Lake processors. This is likely to prep ...