Quote from: altair_tech on September 04, 2023, 10:16:43 PM

Someone mentioned it was improper chip tinning which caused issues with S17 series and not the soldering itself, so it's possible that Bitmain has improved its chip tinning process.

I doubt this was the issue because resoldering the chips with a better solder on those 17 series gears seems to have fixed the majority of the issues, furthermore, the Malaysia batches had almost no issues compared to the Chinese ones, pretty sure the wafer thinking was the same for both factories, the soldering material / robot / human were different.

Anyway, great news, I am glad you didn't have to send all your gears for repair, and I'd say that since a few months have passed, it's pretty unlikely for them to fail now due to solder issues, those flaky 17 series started failing in few weeks, IIRC the first report from a large Chinese farm was 40% failure rate at week #6.