Wars are rarely fought with perfect equipment. Throughout history, militaries have fielded weapons they knew were flawed, ...

Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with advertisers on this site. A key promise of electric car ownership is that a simpler design provides improved reliability, in addition to energy ...

Demand for lower defect rates and higher yields is increasing, in part because chips are now being used for safety- and mission-critical applications, and in part because it’s a way of offsetting ...

Widely accepted wisdom has it that electric vehicles are easier to maintain than those with internal combustion powertrains. It seems intuitive—EVs have many fewer moving parts than cars that have to ...

Circuit aging is emerging as a mandatory design concern across a swath of end markets, particularly in markets where advanced-node chips are expected to last for more than a few years. Some chipmakers ...