In Reply to: Sunspots and/or cosmic rays [nt] posted by Chris from Lafayette on March 3, 2017 at 00:22:53:
"IBM has performed the most comprehensive characterization of soft error rates in DRAM collecting data on roughly 800 memory devices over a 10 year period. These studies were performed at various altitudes, including below sea level in underground caves, since the cosmic ray flux increases with altitude. Using this data, a senior engineer for IBM Microelectronics predicted that 256 Mbytes of memory would average one soft error per month due to cosmic rays (EE Times, 6/22/98)."
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