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Summarize Argument
The industry spokesperson concludes that there is no future risk of design flaws in microprocessors. This is because all microprocessors are now designed by computers. The design flaw cited by the interviewer resulted from the impossibility of manually checking every one of the microprocessor’s circuits. Now that a computer will design microprocessors, the spokesperson thinks there won't be any more microprocessor design flaws.
Identify and Describe Flaw
The spokesperson concedes that a prior microprocessor design flaw resulted from the fact that not every circuit can be manually checked before a computer model is released. This made the computer liable to process information incorrectly. Why, then, should we believe that a computer-designed microprocessor cannot have any design flaws? Couldn't the computers that design the microprocessors have their own flaws, which might lead to errors in the way they design microprocessors?
Analysis by KevinLin
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