This seems like an insane idea, cosmic radiation causes so many measurable impacts even on earth with things like bit flips, this would be a huge issue in space with no magnetic field and atmosphere. I would think this would focus on low density slower speed chips, and likely avoid anything with flash storage.
That doesn’t matter for the undoped crystal structure of the semiconductor material itself. It’s like making low background steel: once it’s made the radiation in the atmosphere won’t mess it up. So then they bring it back to actually make the chips with.
This seems like an insane idea, cosmic radiation causes so many measurable impacts even on earth with things like bit flips, this would be a huge issue in space with no magnetic field and atmosphere. I would think this would focus on low density slower speed chips, and likely avoid anything with flash storage.
That doesn’t matter for the undoped crystal structure of the semiconductor material itself. It’s like making low background steel: once it’s made the radiation in the atmosphere won’t mess it up. So then they bring it back to actually make the chips with.
Yeah, this is focused on the materials only. Can’t get a better vacuum I guess.