Actually they are NOT getting worse.
What is getting worse is the amount being bought from China.
As regards the Changing of the Density, this has been on going for 20 years.....
It does not shorten the life of the cells, the issue is the range comparators, the level of the charge on the cell has to be detected, if the Vref for the comparators drifts , the WHOLE content will be misrepresented or will dissapear. (actually it is still there, but not detectable correctly)
They are actually more reliable is they are used now & again, since the cells get re-written based on the aging of the comparators.
If you write the contents out and the comparators Vref moves , then its game over.
also if you get hold of some very well known chip brand datasheets, after signing the NDA, you will see that they spec all the way down to 1 or 2 writes, with multiple reads.
they even spec specific pages missing... all this shite ends up in the market, since it may have a valid use in writing hardware that only needs to be written once at manufacture, but with changing parameter data.
all you are seeing is teh bottom of the barrel criminals going below the bottom of the barrel to make a profit., since now everyone else is doing the same.
it's all the big retailers, that are involved.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
