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Put another way, the FIT (Failure in Time) value for the condition in which both CPUs in a lockstep pair perform the same erroneous calculation and still produce matching results is extremely small. That is why we selected and accepted this lockstep CPU design
They try to minimize labor cost in the US. Salary and overtime pay are much lower in Taiwan so they try to use the engineering resource in Taiwan as much as possible.
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4327937
Morris Chang spent 25 years (1958–1983) at Texas Instruments.He knows US very well.