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The article linked to a 34 minute YouTube video which demonstrated one unlock method: they replaced a locked iPhone's CPU, baseband CPU, baseband EPROM, NAND Flash (reprogrammed), and touch ID sensor with ones from a donor iPhone and were able to restore iOS.

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except its cheaper to just fix donor iphone that already has all the listed components working

Labour is cheap in Vietnam...

But the parts aren't. It simply does not make sense to go that route.

The parts are if you buy water damaged devices.

Water tends to kill the PCB (due to corrosion), but all the individual chips will usually survive.

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