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Re:Helium kills iPhones: MEMs oscillator sensitivity to heli... by ccarse on Monday November 19, 2018 @01:39PM (#18488601)
It only disables them, doesn't kill them. After the helium has time to diffuse back out the phone starts working again.
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Re:Helium kills iPhones: MEMs oscillator sensitivity to heli... by codewritinfool on Monday November 19, 2018 @10:31PM (#18491637)
It is conceivable that a powered chip clocked with a MEMS oscillator that is seriously off-frequency may latch into a state that is unrecoverable so long as power is applied.
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