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Comment on CPU reliability – Linus Torvalds (2007)parent

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Data of the sort shown in Table 3 certainly exists. However, it's often inaccessible to the public because companies tend to treat it as a trade secret.

Any large company that makes things employs a bunch of reliability engineers, who are usually EE's or ME's who make Weibull plots and bathtub curves all day (to set the warranty duration, mostly). These guys have all the data you could ever want on this topic, but they're not sharing. Especially at Intel.

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