What kind of materials should I used inside USB flash drive?

We are a office stationery brand which is not so sophisticated in USB manufacturing and design, so we outsource them. The quotation is not so pretty in unite price because of the high cost of raw materials, according to the explanation of the supplier. What kind of materials should I used inside USB?

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November 20, 2023

The PCB will contain copper, of course, and probably some gold plating. The solder will be tin with 5% silver. The device lead frames may be tin-plated copper, or just tin, and some component leads may be iron. If there are connectors there may be brass (copper/zinc) or phosphor bronze (copper/tin) Inside the ICs there will be aluminum, possibly gold (though not on the silicon, they don’t play well together), and traces of other exotic metals.

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