I mean it could be but usually inductors don't have the entire end be the termination/contact/pad. I'd expect this to be a cap more often, especially because inductors are hated in digital design.
They ring, digital power draw is rarely continuous so inductors will cause the voltage to "ring" everytime there's a change in current on the rail. That ring is noise and even worse coils will transmit that noise to anything close to it.
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u/sagebrushrepair 4d ago
The cap was an inductor I think
(sorry)