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Re:“Space age electronics”: Inside a GE thin-film paperweigh... by syntaxing on Friday July 02, 2021 @04:41PM (#27716613)
A lot of high performance chips like hybrids (the chip, not cars) are gold bonded. Mainly because its a good conductor and super inert (metal behave funny in contact in space, oxygen is earth's "memory" after all).
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Re:“Space age electronics”: Inside a GE thin-film paperweigh... by AnimalMuppet on Friday July 02, 2021 @04:54PM (#27716732)
> oxygen is earth's "memory" after all

Could you explain what you mean by this?

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Re:“Space age electronics”: Inside a GE thin-film paperweigh... by LaMarseillaise on Friday July 02, 2021 @06:03PM (#27717487)
They may be referring to ‘cold welding’. Oxygen lets metals ‘remember’ what they are connected to. References:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_welding

- https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y2nQ8isf55s

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