Jozef:>Who cares if CPU life is reduced from say 20 years to 10, if even the highest end CPU becomes worth $100 in 1 year, $50 in 2 years and obsolete in 5 years?<
If you are the average Joe who buys CPUs at the technology garage sales, ie. swap meets, you certainly won't care one bit. But imaging if you are a tier one box maker. Your customers are the corporations, the banks, the airliners, whose concern is not just performance, but also reliability. Each failure could result loss of millions. So as a box maker, you have to make that your top priority also. This should give you a clue as why purchasers in corporation won't buy any Cyrix CPU PCs if they want keep their jobs.
One of things are tought at engineer ethics is: you never know when and how people's life will depending on the your engineering decision.
BTW, the average reliability bath tub curve is not 20 years for today's leading edge processors, try 10 years, or much less than that if you ran out of spec. |
