5. The project was funded as a black project without the intention to actually deliver results but rather to justify RSFQ circuits R&D to later use those results elsewhere
I didn't find any of what I was looking for, but I stumbled back onto the fact that Cray II's were cooled by running fluorinert over the components and that the NSA was one of their biggest customers at the time.
Whose to say they aren't still using fluorinert on servers?
But I've also heard rumors about TLAs getting access to pre-production versions of consumer chips (eg, when yields are still sad). And who knows what binning is going on at Intel. If I have a really good production run and I get 95 chips that have absolutely zero flaws, who do I sell them to? When you manufacture something you can't guarantee a certain yield to be above your wildest expectations, so would I even create a product number for the unicorns? Do I bin them with 'the best' chips even though I know they're better than the best?
Or do I just find someone with deep pockets who's happy to take whatever I've got, be it 3 or 300?