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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 motherfucking post by FosterKanig · · Score: -1, Troll

    Bitches!!!!!!!

    1. Re:First motherfucking post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      you win at failing. congrats.

  2. GFir5t by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Thesn3 early

  3. Re:"Good Enough" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I believe Microsoft has this slogan Copyrighted.
    You could get a bill in the mail.

  4. Re:oh yes, by all means by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Your friends must be Jews.