... for instance I would have designed the chips to be removable for easy swapping, IMO that was a foolish design flaw, sockets are cheap. Sometimes engineers do not see the trees for the woods or is that supposed to be the other way around?
no industrial scale equipment available for swapping socketed chips on used (and dusted!) hardware, you would have to ship them to China and employ cheap manual labor to do that
seen video footage of moving mining gear out of mongolia, for relocating to a different place. the amount of dust is nearly fatal to fans and anything surrounding
Best answer in the world no-one else does it so it's stupid, couldn't come up with better than that? I'll tell you why it's not done. It's not done because retards buy the shit from them when they are done with it and then when it's EOL they can resell an entire new product that they pre-use. I know quite a bit about semiconductor manufacturing because I was a senior hardware engineer at one the largest semiconductor manufacturers in the world. We fabbed and designed the power sense chip that to this day is still powering the Opportunity, and powered the Spirit until 2010. These rovers were designed to last 30 days and were launched in 2003. I used to play golf with the Lead scientist that designed that chip, he was brilliant and we had some great conversations and good times.
BTW I'm quite aware of the horrible state of QC these days they moved our Fabs in the late 90's to cheap labor countries in Asia/Philippines Europe/hungry IIRC and I forget the last they were moving to 6 and 8 inch in the new facilities at the time where we were doing 4 inch and some 6 inch in the US.
I've never had to see the footage you mention I've been in clean rooms there wearing the bunny suits, is actually really sucks and I only went in when no-one else could do the job. What they do with the chips after we supply them we generally don't care hell most of them end up in cars and they take the worst beating imaginable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Exploration_Rover .
But thanks alot for giving me the skinny on how the industry works.
I do like Monero Project.
The idea protecting transaction privacy is advanced but elegant.
I'm also a researcher in statistics and cyber-security. If possible, I want to contribute to this project.
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