Quote Originally Posted by knopflerbruce View Post
How can 1.5v be so bad for daily use, when benchers use 2v on 45nm for hours and hours? If 1.5v would kill a chip in less than a couple of years, stock voltage would kill it within about 5 years I guess, and that's pretty insane.

I think you need to qualify that a bit. I doubt very much if benchers use 2v on 45nm for hours and hours. Quite possibly an hour on ln2, but that's not your typical bencher. There's what, maybe 5 or 10 people in the entire world that bench with ln.