The LED chip in a light bulb is a blue laser diode's mellower cousin wrapped in a wavelength-shifting phosphor, and it's almost never the thing that fails first. The driver circuit converting household AC into the precise DC current the diode needs is the real bottleneck — for dimmer compatibility, for flicker, and for why a bulb rated to outlive its owner sometimes dies in eighteen months.
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