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Re:Auto Chip Aging Accelerates in Hot Climates by Kon-Peki on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @12:47PM (#42452886)
The surface area of each pin of a plug-in automotive fuse is somewhere around 100-150 mm^2. Vibration, thermal expansion/contraction, etc is easily handled with that much area for maintaining contact.

How big do you want your automotive-grade chips to be?

Re:Auto Chip Aging Accelerates in Hot Climates by steve_adams_86 on Thursday December 19, 2024 @02:27AM (#42459250)
I have a feeling they could be larger, but I’m very naive in this field. Great point though, I see that the pin outs are fairly expansive on some of the chips in my old car, and they’re likely worse in my newer car. It would be difficult to achieve any kind of secure connection without solder and epoxy.