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Does that mean most companies will be using 2020 generation chips until 2024? Sounds they'll dump it in trash eventually and it'll be a terrible waste of resou

• rubidium 5y ago
  Companies in my industry have products they sell for 10-20 years. The chips will get used. Product updates often keep the same chip, and the same chip is used across multiple product lines. EOL for these chips usually means a bunch of firmware engineers in sustaining need to scratch their head and read 10-15 year old documentation to find a viable replacement.
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• HWR_14 5y ago
  For the vast majority of things I buy that use chips (obviously not consoles, phones and computers) they could easily be using chips from 2010 and the only difference might be a slightly higher electricity draw.
• monocasa 5y ago
  Where I worked that I participated in the board design process, we'd get "lifetime buys" of chips on a many year cycle anyway for design stability reasons. Who cares if the microcontroller is using a couple more watts than it could be from aggressively respinning if it's sitting next to a 500w motor?
• 41b696ef1113 5y ago
  Chips are performing an astounding number of tasks these days. Microwaves, vacuum cleaners, toasters, etc. None of these applications require advanced chips and could settle for something from 20 years ago.
• mrtweetyhack 5y ago