> If a CPU is already operating near the edge, aging might cut this slack all the way down to zero, causing the core to fail consistently. This to me is really

> If a CPU is already operating near the edge, aging might cut this slack all the way down to zero, causing the core to fail consistently. This to me is really interesting. I've always assumed (incorrectly) that CPUs themselves don't age. It's the stuff around it (capacitors etc) that eventually cause a failure that might cascade to the CPU, but the CPU itself couldn't degrade.