2-3 years for a consumer device and 10 for a telecommunications device s em both massively too short by a factor of 2 or more.
Do we really want our devices to stop working physically, at the chip level, in less than a decade? Some people still play on game consoles decades old; these are most certainly consumer devices.
I’d much rather we over-design stuff to last decades, at least at the chip level where overedesigning is super cheap.
Solid state electronics was supposed to mean longer life for everything. No tubes to burn out, no mechanical parts to wear out. It would suck so bad if we nickel and dimed what should be fundamentally physically robust devices to last for much less time than complicated mechanical devices from the past.
Do we really want our devices to stop working physically, at the chip level, in less than a decade? Some people still play on game consoles decades old; these are most certainly consumer devices.
I’d much rather we over-design stuff to last decades, at least at the chip level where overedesigning is super cheap.
Solid state electronics was supposed to mean longer life for everything. No tubes to burn out, no mechanical parts to wear out. It would suck so bad if we nickel and dimed what should be fundamentally physically robust devices to last for much less time than complicated mechanical devices from the past.