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DetlefK

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10. Two years? More like five to ten years.

Sat Jul 28, 2018, 03:25 AM

Jul 2018

There are two things that determine the lifetime of an electronic device:

1. Are software-updates still available?

2. When were the microchips made?
Nowadays, ordinary silicon-based electronics have a lifetime of about 15-20 years, before atomic diffusion starts destroying diodes and transistors. (Used to be more: Microchips are extremely miniaturized nowadays and more sensitive to such effects.) You can expect glitches after about 10 years.

My old router worked to a ripe old age of 11 years, until it suddenly got glitches.

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