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IC Failures Linked to Resin Series?
MEW writes "According to this article, 'the semiconductor industry began using red phosphorus as a flame retardant instead of the Br-based compound it had used for years,' due to environmental concerns. By July 2002, 1000 tons of the stuff was used for about a billion chips, when they stopped due to high component failures. In particular Sumitomo Bakelite caused rampant failures in Fujitsu disk drives. There's still a lot of Sumitomo Bakelite out there, and we may see the worst of it soon, as components start to fail prematurely. This was posted by Spaceman on Macintouch who says that the bad material accounts for 'half the world's supply of 'IC Plastics'' and can result in 'sudden or premature end of life.'"
It's strange to read that, since the Digital-Analog converter on my video card apparently has died this morning when my computer turned on.
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On the plus side to this premature failure, Slashdot now looks extremely trippy... Those green bars keep blinking magenta!
The down side is the contrast for text is really bad...
Pereant, inquit, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.
"Confound those who have said our remarks before us."
And if the environmentalists keep getting their way, there won't be any more ICs produced either, so then we won't have to worry about this anymore.
IC's are dying
"What use is power to the Keeps of Balance?" -Disnt of Nightmare LpMud
...Does that mean if my chips glow red in the dark then its a bad thing?
Perhaps I need one of those heat-sink thingies.
*--BigMan--- Time flies like an arrow.. but personally I prefer a nice glass of wine!
The Politically correct change in chemistry results in more equipment in landfills not less!
This is almost as funny as all those dimbulbs who choose paper over plastic "to protect the enviroment" even though their paper probably used chemicals that polluted water, and the paper probably came from some asian rainforest.
I really want to mod you as +1, Flamebait, but there's no option.
Karma: Excellent^(-t/Tau), Tau=Wittiness/Trollishness
>And if the environmentalists keep getting their way
Yeah those damn peacenik hippi socialists that control the house, senate, supreme court, white house, wto, and all of those multi-national companies that are ruining this world or ours.
Yeah those damn peacenik hippi socialists that control the house, senate, supreme court, white house, wto, and all of those multi-national companies that are ruining this world or ours.
What worries me is that I can't figure out if this is meant to be funny or not. I'm sure there are people who genuinely believe this about the US government... well, maybe not the White House bit.
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I can safely say there is no red Phosphorus in any of my computer hardware. I have experienced exceptional reliability in all computer components and rate the chance of me experiencing any sudden failure as extrem-!@#
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Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. -- AE
"The down side is the contrast for text is really bad."
The content of the text isn't that great either.
Guess what? A bottle is just a funny-shaped rock, to nature.
Wow, I'd really never thought of it like that before. You're so right! I mean, short of some large, heavy, soft-footed creature (say, a human) stepping on it, a bottle is a rather harmless object. Made of one of our most inert materials, as well.
Wish I had some mod points. Your post needs to be seen (and not just for the bottle comment, you make another good point).
That? That was a pigeon.