On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Krishna Murphy wrote:

> The PIC will do much more than
> this current, but it causes failures due to metal migration in the
> silicon - can't be protected by heat-sinking, etc.  By the way, this is an
> "instantaneous" spec, not an average.

Metal migration?  Would this mean chips failing over time,
instead of instantaneously?  I've gone through alot of cerdips
that over the course of a few weeks slowly quit working; they
would take longer and longer to erase, until eventually they
woudln't erase at all.

-Shane.