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China is testing 16nm chips in space while Nasa sticks to 250nm process (www.scmp.com)
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[โ€“] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yup, resilience is the reason larger chips are preferred. That said, I imagine that NASA never bothered exploring ways of using news chips because as you say they don't really try to push the envelope anymore. China enjoys a lot of advantages now coming late into the game because they're starting with modern tech and they can learn from what worked and what didn't previously.