| ▲ | bgnn 2 hours ago | |||||||
Chips age and fail with age. You can check hot-carrier injection, bias-temperature instability and electromigration as they are the main aging mechanisms. All if these are a linear function of time but exponentieal of temperature. 90-100C these chips are running at are really tough, so they are likely to fail at couple of percent to 10% range in 2-3 years depending on the margins they have in the design. The solder joints are notorious to fail at a high rate too. | ||||||||
| ▲ | consp 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||
If those don't go the caps and coils will eventually. | ||||||||
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