> The reason for the fans is to prevent premature failures of the > silicon devices due to thermal degradation. The life of a silicon > chip is halved for every 10C temperature increase, more or less.
I was going to make a similar comment, but got sidetracked poking around google. I didn't find a good/clean article. Does anybody have a good URL? Doubling every 10C is the normal recipe for chemical reactions. I think that translated to IC failure rate back in the old days. Is that still correct? Has modern quality control tracked down and eliminated most of the temperature dependent failure mechanisms? I remember reading a paper 5 or 10 years ago. The context was disks. I think the main failure was electronics rather than mechanical. It really really really helped to keep them cool. -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
