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As the chess players know, ‘a bad plan is better than none at all’. https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/planning.html

“probably fine” is not the comment I would’ve wanted from my lawyer. There are tons of ways this could’ve gone south. For example, which charity? What if Kaspersky benefited from a tax break as a result. Etc. etc. why take a chance?

In 2024, if your resistor vendor has even 5% tolerance, you need to find another vendor.

These things all made sense before laser trim resistors. At even a modest volume you can get any value you want at better than 1% for basically no money.

Usually the minimum order is something like 10K parts (a.k.a. one reel) and you might pay something like $75 for it. $0.0075 per resistor.

https://www.ppisystems.com/ppi-systems-designs-and-manufactu...

It's also important to note that in modern hardware the processor core proper is just one piece in a very large system.

Hardware designers are adding a lot of speciality hardware, they're just not putting it into the core, which also makes a lot of sense.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Architectural-specializa...