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Why a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone in a Medical Facility (www.vice.com)

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[–] Midnitte 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

By Daniel Oberhaus October 30, 2018, 5:20pm

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Yet both Android and Apple phones use MEMS silicon for their devices, so why were only Apple phones affected?

Glad I've got an Android since I could potentially work with liquid Hydrogen...

[–] tal@lemmy.today 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Hydrogen

This says that hydrogen isn't just a problem, just helium:

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/669763/why-is-a-mems-device-affected-by-helium-but-not-hydrogen

It seems that MEMS is very sensitive to helium, but only helium. This Link stated that hydrogen does not affect MEMS, which surprised me.

[–] Midnitte 1 points 1 month ago

Oh derp

[–] IrritableOcelot 1 points 1 month ago

Can't speak for MEMS specifically, but it absolutely can make chips shut down whole instruments by changing their properties. It intercalates slower, but has much the same effect once it's in there.