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Perhaps it’s a new way to reintroduce planned obsolescence. If consumers can detect throttling, then why not just make hardware run hotter so eventually solder
by 1-6 3y ago
Perhaps it’s a new way to reintroduce planned obsolescence. If consumers can detect throttling, then why not just make hardware run hotter so eventually solder points come off and bake PCBs to randomly introduce errors to get consumers to buy new computers?
- J_Shelby_J 3y agoNot just the solder but x86 CPU’s start to break down at that point. The overclocking groups have information about this but as I understand it the actual physical transistors on the die start to break down within a period of months leading to degraded performance, errors, and eventually non-operation. Granted, the chip may be designed for these temperatures, but I would assume that apple does what other manufacturers do and just assume the cases of users where high heat is not intermittent and causes premature failure will be rare enough to be inconsequential.
- Dalewyn 3y agoSpeaking Intel for a moment, since I don't know all the details for AMD and Apple, their CPUs are nowadays designed to boost until they reach 100C if they weren't already power or frequency limited by then. Intel also provides a 3 year warranty when the CPU is operated to spec, which includes the aforementioned. AMD does likewise, though their CPUs' thermal limit is 95C from what I know; I assume they have a similar warranty period to Intel. Apple also seems fit to operate their CPUs like that. Given all that, I'm going to presume that advances in fabbing tech mean CPUs today tolerate high temperatures better than ones from yesteryear.
- coldtea 3y agoCompanies with "planned obsolescence" don't get highest customer satisfaction ratings and higher resale prices for old laptops