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joshu
on March 19, 2017
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They Used To Last 50 Years
Another reason: some very durable materials are no longer legal. For example, beryllium copper and leaded solder.
mschuster91
on March 19, 2017
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I don't get why you're being downvoted. Anyone remembers the years after RoHS went into effect and e.g. NVidia's mobile GPUs started failing left and right due to no one having experience with lead-free solder?
j3097736
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Because most of the failures I see are simply a product of bad design/cost cutting.
Otherwise we would have plenty of other devices based on the same technology fail.
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