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Faulty Chips Might Just be 'Good Enough'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the next-week-the-soda-ring-hammock dept.

Ritalin16 writes "According to a Wired.com article, 'Consumer electronics could be a whole lot cheaper if chip manufacturers stopped throwing out all their defective chips, according to a researcher at the University of Southern California. Chip manufacturing is currently very wasteful. Between 20 percent and 50 percent of a manufacturer's total production is tossed or recycled because the chips contain minor imperfections. Defects in just one of the millions of tiny gates on a processor can doom the entire chip. But USC professor Melvin Breuer believes the imperfections are often too small for humans to even notice, especially when the chips are to be used in video and sound applications.' But just in case you do end up with a dead chip, here is a guide to making a CPU keychain."

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  1. first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    firstness [bf]

  2. By the way... by Canadarcy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I've heard IE 7 is going to have bad CSS support...can anyone confirm?

    1. Re:By the way... by Ritalin16 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Yes, Microsoft decided not to support CSS2

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    2. Re:By the way... by Ritalin16 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I know its offtopic, stupid moderators. I was just replying to his post :O

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      In soviet Russia, Linux compiles YOU!
  3. I'd rather have... by bogaboga · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...a comprehensive howto on how one can get and maintain clear-crisp fonts on Linux as the default fonts on my SuSE 9.2 are blurry. And now, my Konqueror, (the latest and greatest sofar), cannot maintain toolbars where I place them! What the hell...