AMD Graphics Chips Could Last 10X To 100X Longer 150
An anonymous reader writes "According to a research report out of UCLA, released this morning, NVidia's high-lead bump packaging could last anywhere from 1/10th to 1/100th as long as AMD's advanced eutectic bump approach. (TG Daily has picked up the claim.) NVidia is currently in the midst of a $200M recall of bad GPUs, and the report suggests that the issue could be much deeper than NVidia's PR department would have us believe." The report lends credence to the strident claims of the Inquirer's Charlie Demerjian, which we discussed a month back.
Huh? (Score:2, Interesting)
The report lends credence to the strident claims of the Enquirer's Charlie Demerjian
As in National Enquirer?
As in Real news?
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Oh Well, Neutral Karma and all . . .
To Quote from 'Count Zero'... (Score:4, Interesting)
"Silicon doesn't wear out; microchips were effectively immortal. The Wig took notice of the fact. Like every other child of his age, however, he knew that silicon became obsolete, which was worse than wearing out"
More data please! (Score:4, Interesting)
What does 1/10th and 1/100th actually mean in standard solar days?
Can someone please provide a plot of the various solders and their performance vs. temperature and time?
I would like to see the plots for ====>
90Pb10Sn
60Pb40Sn
97Sn2.5Ag0.5Cu
99.3Sn0.7Cu
96Sn4Ag
99.25Sn0.75Cu
What is the risk associated with Tin? Especially Tin whiskers.
What kind of solders does the slashdot community use?
Re:To Quote from 'Count Zero'... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Sweet! (Score:2, Interesting)
Thanks for your meaningless data, though!
Re:Sweet! (Score:3, Interesting)
why would anyone want to spend 50$ on a 3 year old card when they can get a 1 year old "better" card for 90$
Perhaps someone only has $60, and still wants to eat for the rest of the day.
*shrug*
Generally, your "insightful" rhetorical question is absurd, like this: Why would anyone want to spend $50,000 on a 3-year-old Corvette when they can get a better 1-year-old Corvette C6 Z06 for $90,000?
So how can they sell these in Europe? (Score:4, Interesting)
With the lead content, they're not RoHS-compliant.
Re:So Do nVidias last 3 months, or ATIs 30-300 yea (Score:4, Interesting)
Typical failure models use an exponential distribution, rather than a Gaussian distribution to model time-to-failure.
Re:Sweet! (Score:2, Interesting)
Well, I just built a home NAS server, 2TB of disk, Gigabit NIC, S3 Virge PCI 2MB graphics... who could ask for anything more!
Re:To Quote from 'Count Zero'... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:So Do nVidias last 3 months, or ATIs 30-300 yea (Score:3, Interesting)
I can confirm the putting pressure on the warranty part. Dell just ran out of replacement Nvidia cards for the D620. 15 day wait list if yours fails.
What recall? (Score:3, Interesting)
"NVidia is currently in the midst of a $200M recall of bad GPUs"
Last I checked, they reserved $200M on their financial sheets in case they needed to deal with the chips. I've heard nothing about an official recall? Only thing I can find is a lot of angry resellers who are demanding a recall.
Correct me if I'm wrong?