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Why don't companies that make computer chips cut corners at the expense of stability? (startrek.website)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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It seems like it would be trivial for them to reduce quality control and have customers just "deal with" chips that aren't as stable. How come they aren't doing this?

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[–] 3 points 5 months ago

I would think even tiny decreases in stability would drastically increase the frequency of system crashes. Software is generally made expecting total consistency in computer instructions like, for example, integer arithmetic. Any interference with that would probably not be cost-effective on the part of the chip manufacturer.

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