> > If decades of time passing by are not extreme circumstances, then what is?
> >
> > He's basically saying they won't last forever, but what in this world lasts
> forever?
> > That was a pretty silly statement.
> >
> > I am talking from my dumping experience anyway, I have dumped several thousands of
> > ass old mask roms and 100% of the bad dumps were bad pins/connections. It's not
> > rocket science.
>
> Well console ROM chips generally get a pretty easy life. They sit around unused most
> of the time, and they aren't subjected to much thermal stress. In industrial
> applications, chips are run close to spec for years on end. A significant proportion
> of NMOS chips used in industrial applications have gone bad. Modern CMOS chips built
> on ever-smaller processes with ridiculously thin oxide layers go bad quicker. It
> isn't that it takes extreme circumstances to make chips go bad, it's just that
> console ROMs aren't exposed to much at all.
Yes those are the extreme circumstances I was talking about. Regardless no matter the specs, there is fixed a voltage between the entry and exit of the semiconductors which will determine the amount of energy it will sustain at any time. That amount of energy is way, way inferior to the energy contained in the chemical bonds, so the chemicals should not react. But there is always an epsilon risk of them reacting and the bigger the total amount of energy it sustains over time the higher that epsilon is of course.
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