I've seen enough failed parts that I know this is misleading if not outright incorrect. It happens. We all have so many electronic devices, many of which we kee

I've seen enough failed parts that I know this is misleading if not outright incorrect. It happens. We all have so many electronic devices, many of which we keep for a long time, that the likelihood of your average consumer experiencing a chip failure of some kind is fairly high (over a long enough period of time, probably even guaranteed). Yet for some reason people keep painting it as this statistical impossibility. It's simply not that rare.