
Tech analysts TrendForce reckon old server memory sticks are being stripped of their DDR4 memory at scale, only for the chips to be resoldered and sold as new on DDR4 memory sticks for consumer PCs.
The basic ruse here is simple enough. If you can buy in old server DDR4 sticks, remove chips and reflash them for use as vanilla DDR4 memory, and you can do that cheaper than you can buy in new DDR4 memory chips, well, you've got a go-er.