Burnt Microchip?

[EtheMan02]

Hi, 

i am currently working on a personal project and I accidentally hit this chip with the side of my soldering iron. I think it should be fine but I would like some second opinions. It’s not as bad as it may look on camera.

[Letgomyleghoe]

no way to tell until you boot it up. it overall looks cosmetic and I doubt anything's broken.

[Hackentosher]

Usually the epoxy case on semiconductor devices are really strong in terms of temperature resistance. They're designed to go through an oven that can peak over 300C for a couple minutes at a time. I doubt your iron damaged it, though it is a little weird that you were able to melt it at all. I've never been able to do that. Hopefully it still works, but there's only one way to tell.

[H713]

Well... how bad is it if the chip fails? Is this a case where a shorted chip takes out $500 worth of parts, or poses a safety hazard? If the answer is yes, then just play it safe and change it. If failure isn't a big deal, then just try it and see what happens. Good chance it'll still work, but if I were working on someone else's equipment, I'd probably change it unless it was impossible to source.