Considering that a Quad-core + GPU Core i7 Haswell has 1.4e9 transistors inside, even given a really small probability of one of them failing, wouldn't this be catastrophic?
Wouldn't a single transistor failing mean the whole chip stops working? Or are there protections built-in so only performance is lost over time?
Wouldn't a single transistor failing mean the whole chip stops working? Or are there protections built-in so only performance is lost over time?