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by MathMonkeyMan 66 days ago
I read, for probe missions, that one technique is to get a bunch of consumer chips and irradiate the hell out of them. Now take the winner model and get a bunch of those. Irradiate them. The winner goes to Mars.

The claim was that some plain old chips are exquisitely radiation resisitant, and it's not clear why.