"It seems these devices are due to ship to select customers in 2022, it seems."
So it would seem.
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I had a really good chat with one of Intel's designers a few years back, and I raised a similar point.
He said that there's a degree of redundancy built into the architecture so a single transistor blowing won't affect things too much, and also that they've been correcting for effects like quantum interference for a while.
Of course they'll notify the public.
The notification will be on public display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
(Hat-tip to Mr Adams)
You don't need batteries to store energy.
One alternative would be to use the surplus electricity generated during the day to liquify air, and then release the air to drive turbines at night.
Another would be to use the surplus to generate hydrogen (from the splitting of water) or methane (from carbon dioxide and water) and then put it into the existing gas infrastructure.