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A gas burner's ignition system is surprisingly vulnerable to electrical spikes — Samsung's latest patent describes a smart circuit that steps in…
Samsung has filed a patent for a semiconductor package that stacks two groups of chips on top of each other — but…
Soldering chips onto circuit boards creates a heat problem — the same heat that bonds the chip can damage the shielding around…
Samsung is patenting a redesigned mask for extreme ultraviolet lithography — the process that etches today's most advanced chips — with a…
Deep inside a chip factory, the difference between a working transistor and a dead one can come down to a single masking…
Radar chips are only as accurate as their analog circuitry — and that circuitry is never perfect. Samsung's new patent describes a…
As chips get smaller and the wires connecting their components shrink to nanometer scales, verifying those connections without destroying the chip becomes…
Getting semiconductor layers to line up within a few nanometers across an entire wafer is one of the hardest problems in chip…
As transistors shrink to nanosheet dimensions, the tiny metal contacts that carry current in and out become a serious engineering headache. IBM's…
As chips get stacked closer together, heat has nowhere to go — and that thermal buildup is quietly becoming one of the…
IBM has found a clever workaround for a rigid constraint in chip layout tools — temporarily disguising one type of transistor as…
IBM has filed a patent for a P-N diode that lives inside the same physical space as a transistor's source and drain…
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