This piqued my interest, and I reached out to some friends that make ‘MEMS’ silicon. These microelectromechanical systems are some of the smallest mechanical apparatuses in the world. Every phone has gyroscopes and accelerometers with micrometer-thin elements. My initial theory, shared by some on Reddit, was that the helium molecules were small enough to get inside these chips and interfere with the mechanical workings.

source: L