[w1nk]

It's boggling to me that everyone is so entirely convinced of this fact. Check out this paper from google where they observe this exact process occurring in their CPUs at scale: https://sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2021/papers/hotos21-s...

Given their conclusion that this is the result of manufacturing tiny process transistors, it follows that this can occur in GPUs as well.

[latchkey]

You're conflating workload related issues (which is what I responded to) and manufacturing defects / electron weirdness.

Using GPUs for mining doesn't destroy them any more than using GPUs to render p0rn videos doesn't destroy them.