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Not really. Transistors, especially in power electronics, will almost always be run at basically their max switching frequency continuously for almost the entirety of their power-on time. They certainly will not wear out after 1 second of use at their maximum frequency.

(This kind of thing is extremely common in MEMS, BTW: a lot of cool things you can fabricate mechanically in silicon will do something really cool but for a similarly short time period, and so they never leave the lab. All the actual uses of MEMS have much bigger constraints on what you can actually make)



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