so if you’ve wondered what’s inside of one of those 16-interface USB3 breakout interfaces boxes - this one being a zmuipng which is popular somehow - here are photos.
to open it you remove the two long rubber feet then remove the two revealed screws, then spudger the top off starting on the short sides. lever them up alternately and it’ll come clear without too much of a fight. But be careful about the headphone jack! It's fragile. I damaged this one taking it out.
Anyway, the reason I'm taking it apart is that is has an intermittent fault (best kind) that makes it start blanking all the displays hooked up to it, turning them on and off. This is generally after it's been running for a while so I suspect one of these chips is getting real hot.
And there is. It's this one. It's not anything that I think of as out of temperature yet, but it's a good 10°C hotter than everything else and it's only been running a few minutes.
@GaryGough good job!
this thing is way too fine-pitched for that tho' - if it's something similar, it's done.
Solarbird 
Gary Gough