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Is there any kind of organization where we can donate old and unused cpus? I have at least half a dozen chips in a drawer sitting and collecting dust. Some are even a decade old but I'm sure they're more than OK to run a toaster or a washing machine.

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It's basically not worth it to incorporate salvaged parts into mass production assembly lines, and even if it was those things don't use CPUs, they use tiny microcontrollers.

Is there enough overlap in architecture, packaging, etc., Where collection and distribution of unused chips really makes sense?

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