Why Is Apple Ram So Expensive 2716

Tim Smith

No, it is not **way** out of date. The problems still persists. Some chip vendors have managed to cull out the offending materials and some haven't. Ever wonder why XP mysteriously reboots?? It shouldn't but it does. When I was doing Automated Test engineering I got the same technical bulletin about cosmic radiation affecting semiconductors from Texas Instruments. You do realize the small sizes involved in the memory cells are now in the nanometer range? The energies involved from cosmic radiation are stong enough to make a difference. What most people don't realize is that cosmic rays, when analyzing the geometries of the chip versus the number of events are far and few between. When designing a piece of equipment for space use or upper atmoshperic uses, you have to use RAD hardened chips for that job and it takes a long time to get those chips developed for that environment.

-- Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?