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What's weird is that susceptibility to incident radiation has gone up tremendously. Cells minimize area, and exacerbate the problem. I'm wondering if computers
by analognoise 8y ago
What's weird is that susceptibility to incident radiation has gone up tremendously. Cells minimize area, and exacerbate the problem. I'm wondering if computers will still need to be replaced regularly as a byproduct.
- zrm 8y agoCouldn't we just go back to the older transistor densities? Forget about 5nm and instead keep tuning the 32nm process (or whatever the last reliable one was) for yields and power efficiency. Modern processors are faster than Sandy Bridge, but not by an overwhelming amount, and it's not clear how much of the improvement is due to smaller transistor sizes now that they no longer result in clock speed increases, rather than design improvements that are independent of transistor size. There has to be a market for something with 80% of the performance and 2000% the reliability.