IC Failures Linked to Resin Series?

IC Failures Linked to Resin Series?:

"In about June 2001 a rumor began circulating through the industry that certain Fujitsu HDDs were failing at an unusually high rate. One after another, 3.5-inch HDDs mounted internally in desktop and other PCs were failing to spin up. The cause was a failure in the drive controller, the CL-SH8671 (codename: Himalaya 2.0) from Cirrus Logic, Inc of the US. The failure was caused by a short between pins within the integrated circuit (IC) package.

Originally the issue was thought to be affecting only HDDs, but more recently similar defects have begun appearing in a range of other equipment, including set-top boxes, PC main boards, IC test systems and industrial machinery. The issue is developing into a major problem, and has rapidly come to involve a host of equipment and IC manufacturers.