> change in the way chips are designed can make them resilient to defects This is already happening for almost all modern chips manufactured in the last 10+ ye

> change in the way chips are designed can make them resilient to defects This is already happening for almost all modern chips manufactured in the last 10+ years. DRAM chips have extra rows/cols. Even Intel CPUs have redundant cache lines, internal bus lines and other redundant critical parts, which are burned-in during initial chip testing.