Probably. It seems that Skylake suffers from electromigration (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromigration), basically, it is a process of loss and gain of metal atoms in the circuit, and it would cause disconnections or shorts of the "wires" inside the integrated circuit.
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Re: "Long term reliability"
Date: 2016-04-14 09:22 am (UTC)