Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: MOTM
Subject: No DIPs
From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...>
Date: 2001-03-09
No demand. Show me a single DIP IC in:
cell phone
pager
computer
DVD player
Playstation
Gameboy
X-Box
Cisco Router
VCR
Today, only 8% of all IC's shipped are in DIP. And that number drops 20%
every year.
EPROMs and other memory make up over 90% of THAT total.
Now for the good news: the average MTBF (mean time between failures) on
modern processed ICs
(ie ICs made after 1995) are like 25 YEARS.
Best thing to keep MOTM happy: use a GOOD SURGE supperssor (acts like a
Serge suppressor, too!)
Paul S.