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There would need to be two separate products. One covered by higher liability intended for use in critical systems, and the other under the standard liability.
by SimonBiggs 9y ago
There would need to be two separate products. One covered by higher liability intended for use in critical systems, and the other under the standard liability.
I imagine that the higher liability CPU would likely be slow, old, and very very expensive. But that is the compromise required on behalf of the consumer.
- gnode 9y agoWhat's a critical system? Is it okay for some things to have compromised security?
- dfox 9y agoSafety and security are two different things that are very often at odds with each other.
- the8472 9y agoThat's pretty much what the military and satellite operators buy. Older, simpler CPUs manufactured on larger nodes, radiation-hardened to boot and with years of proven track record and bug fixes. And then they buy two or three per system for redundancy.
- monocasa 9y agoAnd they pay for that too. A RAD750 was about $200,000 each according to wikipedia.
- Dylan16807 9y agoI'd say that the hardening is the overwhelming motivator there. That's the reason to be on a huge node. If you're not worried about radiation, you could shrink the same design, making it cheaper and faster and have larger safety margins all at the same time.