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From: Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Operating temperature derating
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 07:52:58 -0700
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Presumably, one should feel comfortable using a device at the
published operating temperature extremes "forever".

But, what sort of derating likely went into that specification
in the first place?  Sad another way, how much *beyond* those
limits might want suspect you could operate the device?