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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (278641)	3/7/2006 7:00:20 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571964

Second, I'll share with you a little "secret." As we push forward from the current 90nm technology to 65nm, 40nm, and beyond, transistors themselves are going to be less reliable. Already we have to build in internal fault tolerance and detection logic in areas we never had to worry about before, because the process guys can't guarantee that the transistors we use to build our designs will be able to work as well as they used to. Fortunately, the smaller transistors mean we have room to add such logic, but then that starts eating away at the benefits of miniaturization. At some point, it's just not going to be worth it. Do you know why miniaturization leads to less reliability?