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At that level, they are not different. They could suffer from UE due to defect, marginal system (voltage, temperature, frequency), or radiation upset, suffer electromigration/aging, etc. And you can't replace them either.

CPUs tend to be built to tolerate upsets, like having ECC and parity in arrays and structures whereas the DRAM on a Macbook probably does not. But there is no objective standard for these things, and redundancy is not foolproof it is just another lever to move reliability equation with.



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