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slashdevyesterday at 7:51 PM3 repliesview on HN

Pure silicon melts at 1400 C

You must be thinking of something else


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monocasayesterday at 10:45 PM

Nope, thermodynamics is weird at small scales. Hot spots can absolutely reach 1400C if not designed not to. Sophie Wilson (initial architect of the ARM processor) has talked about how poorly designed silicon can reach point temperatures hotter than a nuclear reactor steady state.

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kridsdale1yesterday at 8:18 PM

In NAND, data loss is proportional to temperature. I don’t recall how logic circuit errors behave.

boznzyesterday at 10:09 PM

I take your point, but an IC is not pure silicon