Comment Re:It's not cosmic. It's from the die/package (Score 1) 277
Never worked with lead-free solder have you?
It's only very recently that it's become practical for widespread use and it's still not settled how well it will work in applications that require maximum reliability. The problems with higher melting points, reduced wetting, tin whiskers, appropriate fluxes, etc. took a long time to sort out.
I'm sure that when a lot of early supercomputers were being built the components used would have been destroyed by the temperatures required to solder without lead.