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Sorry, but that's just plain wrong:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromigration

At the scale of your house wiring the effect is not so noticeable but for integrated circuits it is definitely a factor.

As for your house wiring, if it is really 70 years old you might want to worry about the insulation, not the copper.




What's wrong about it? Transistors don't work by electromigration.


Electromigration will move atoms on the interconnects between transistors and eventually cause an open.


He said transistors, not IC's. And electromigration is a problem with metal interconnects at high current densities. So you talking solemnly about a failure type that can occur with on some integrated circuits under some conditions, or when the designers screwed up. But which doesn't actually happen much in practice.

The persons actually question is roughly why do transistors last so long compared to other types of mechanisms. No one in the comments made an attempt to answer that, at all.




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