Re:Ask HN: Why don't transistors in microchips fail?
by hyperpallium on Thursday July 09, 2015 @08:23PM
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As process nodes shrink and this happens more often, perhaps we'll eventually have to move to a more probability-based model of computation, giving up classical predictability.
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Re:Ask HN: Why don't transistors in microchips fail?
by wsxcde on Thursday July 09, 2015 @08:28PM
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Well, this is what researchers were predicting 12-14 years ago. There was a lot of work in fault tolerant and probabilistic computer architectures as a result of this. (I believed the prediction and contributed to some of this work.)
The prediction was that chips below 32nm wouldn't work reliably and the only option would be to use these exotic architectures.
Well, here we are at 14nm and everything seems to be going okay.