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Re:The Mars Helicopter Is Online and Getting Ready to Fly by marcinzm on Sunday February 28, 2021 @01:01PM (#26295369)
Aren't smaller transistor sizes also more susceptible to radiation issues which means you can't really use newer processors without ever more effort in radiation hardening?
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Re:The Mars Helicopter Is Online and Getting Ready to Fly by Robotbeat on Sunday February 28, 2021 @01:12PM (#26295509)
Smaller transistors also have a smaller cross-section so for the same number of transistors this somewhat cancels out.
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Re:The Mars Helicopter Is Online and Getting Ready to Fly by eecc on Sunday February 28, 2021 @02:23PM (#26296232)
But then you have to build for redundancy rather than just performance (say, sacrifice some floor-plan to error correction, recovery, circuit duplication, etc...)
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Re:The Mars Helicopter Is Online and Getting Ready to Fly by Robotbeat on Sunday February 28, 2021 @04:04PM (#26297042)
Still a game of probability either way.
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