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Comment by FLUX-YOU

8 years ago

>Since the problem gets worse with temperature, what happens if I heat up the RAM?

Neat. I wonder if that makes Rowhammer more likely to occur.

Probably. Hotter usually means closer to not working for semiconductors.

  • Possibly, although hotter fundamentally means more thermal noise, which might actually reduce correlations / ability to communicate effectively between adjacent circuits.

    Think of it as SNR (signal-noise-ratio) -- increasing temperature increases thermal noise (there are other kinds), and with the same signal, it should actually reduce the efficiency of the side channel.

    But it brings up a good question, I wonder if anyone has studied this...