Re: Error detection
That is a lot of silicon being dedicated to a problem that can be solved with less.
It's possible and has been done where I used to work, Sussex uni, to implement error checking in logic gates. A researcher around 20 years ago was generating chip designs for error checking, finding the least number of gates needed, reducing the current, at the time, design size.
He was back then using a GA to produce needed layouts and found many more efficient ones than was currently in use (provided them free to use). This could be applied to cpus, and is for critical systems, but as it uses more silicon, isn't in consumer cpus as that adds cost for no performance gain.
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