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		Robotbeat on Feb 28, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Mars Helicopter Is Online and Getting Ready to... Smaller transistors also have a smaller cross-section so for the same number of transistors this somewhat cancels out.

eecc on Feb 28, 2021 [–]

But then you have to build for redundancy rather than just performance (say, sacrifice some floor-plan to error correction, recovery, circuit duplication, etc...)

Robotbeat on Feb 28, 2021 | [–]

Still a game of probability either way.

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