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Aren't electronics today more sturdy from am EM perspective than their counterparts in the 60s and 70s? Not that a strong solar flare couldn't cause problems re

• Arubis 7y ago
  If they're specced to be (military, aerospace), sure. But the move from vacuum tubes to transistors, for all its incredible advantages, made everything a lot more EM vulnerable.
• Piskvorrr 7y ago
  Quite the contrary: as silicon processes shrink, electronics become more vulnerable.