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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

>> Oh.  And who verifies that the silicon is correct?
>
> Well, that is much simpler. Since silicon is a physical device
> statistical models work pretty well there.

You can probably tell if the silicon has become broken. It's harder to
tell whether the silicon has a design error.