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Your Old Devices Depend on Dying Sensors. The Silicon Labs Incident Proves It
- openrockets 4mo agohttps://www.quora.com/profile/Busy-Person-22/Your-Old-Devices-Depend-on-Dying-Sensors-The-Silicon-Labs-Incident-Proves-It-Read-this-paper-before-you-are-surprised https://www.quora.com/profile/Busy-Person-22/Your-Old-Device...
- openrockets 4mo agohttps://fiaos.substack.com/p/your-old-devices-depend-on-dying https://fiaos.substack.com/p/your-old-devices-depend-on-dyin...
- _trampeltier 4mo agoKTY84 temperature sensors come to my mind too. But even software, look at the CR,LF thing. This is from before computers had screens and it's still kind of a thing / different between Linux, Mac and Windows (ok, 2026 most editors can handle it)
- peterus 4mo agoThe end of life notification for these chips were issued in May of 2022, with final orders by December 2022 [1]. The chip itself from what I can see at a glance has unremarkable specs compared to newer ones (all of TI's offerings have better relative humidity accuracy), but of course needing to redo a PCB design and firmware is annoying. [1] https://www.silabs.com/documents/public/pcns/2205311264-End-of-Life-for-selected-Si700xSi702x-RHT-Sensor-Devices-.pdf https://www.silabs.com/documents/public/pcns/2205311264-End-...