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Re:The Unsustainability of Moore's Law by Symmetry on Sunday June 29, 2025 @11:10AM (#44413753)
Electromigration tends to get worse with small sizes but also higher voltage and temperatures. I could see a GPU wearing out that quickly if it were overclocked enough, but stock consumer GPUs will last much longer than that.
Re:The Unsustainability of Moore's Law by markhahn on Sunday June 29, 2025 @01:43PM (#44414888)
electromigration is real, but is it relevant?

since electromigration is basically a matter of long, high-current interconnect, I guess I have been assuming it's merely designed around. By, for instance, having hundreds of power and ground pins, implying quite a robust on-chip distribution mesh, rather than a few high-current runs.