Extending Chip Lifetime With Safer Voltage Scaling


What if your chips lived 20% longer without compromising performance, and even while reducing power consumption? How would it affect your product’s reliability and cost? What would be the effect on your profitability? With the demand for longer-lasting chips growing across industries, designers and reliability engineers face increasing pressure to ensure their products perform correctly fo... » read more

From Reaction To Prevention In Data Center RAS


The rise of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud services, and IoT has fueled the rapid expansion of hyperscale data centers. These massive facilities house thousands of servers, all working to support an increasingly digital world. But as the scale of data centers grows, so too does the need for reliable and high-performance semiconductors. Semiconductor failures and inconsistencies can cause s... » read more

Examining The Impact Of Chip Power Reduction On Data Center Economics


In the rapidly evolving landscape of data centers, optimizing energy consumption has become a critical focus. In this blog post, we'll delve into the intricacies of power consumption, exploring the economics of three key components: CPUs, GPUs, and AI accelerators, and how the implementation of proteanTecs power reduction solution transforms both power efficiency and computational capabilities... » read more

Achieving Automotive Reliability With Advanced Monitoring Solutions


In today's automotive landscape, the integration of advanced software and hardware has transformed vehicles into complex data-driven machines. Sensors like cameras, radars, and lidars constantly monitor the vehicle's surroundings, feeding data to electronic control units that enable advanced driver assistance features like adaptive cruise control, lane-keeping assistance, and collision avoid... » read more

The Future Of Chiplet Reliability


Chipmakers are increasingly turning to advanced packaging to overcome the reticle size limit of silicon manufacturing without increasing transistor density. This method also allows hybrid devices with dies in different process nodes while improving yield, which decreases exponentially with size. However, 2.5D/3D designs introduce a fair share of new challenges, one of the most significant be... » read more

The Data Revolution Of Semiconductor Production


During our insightful panel discussion on “The Data Revolution of Semiconductor Production – How Advancements in Technology Unlock New Insights,” we covered several topics including machine learning, edge computing and cloud-based data management. We discussed questions including: Are we creating the right data and doing enough with it? What needs to be done to make data actionable? Ho... » read more

Assuring Reliable Processor Performance At Scale


In today’s data center environment, resilience is key. Cloud providers are built on as-a-service business models, where uptime is critical to ensure their customers’ business continuity. Reputation and competitiveness require service at extremely high performance, low power, and increasing functionality, with zero tolerance for unplanned downtime or errors. If you’re a hyperscaler, o... » read more

Early And Fine Virtual Binning


Not all chips are created equal, and this is viewed as both a blessing and a curse by semiconductor makers. On one hand, chips can be screened for certain attributes, and some of the chips can be sold for higher prices than others. On the other hand, variations in the production process cause silicon performance to greatly differ, leaving chip makers with a wide and somewhat unpredictable distr... » read more

Fleet Management Of Data Center Electronics


Data has become the most valuable resource of our time, with processing, storage and networking being the key assets of the modern digital world. This has fueled a two-decade spread of massive data centers around the globe and a surge in the cloud services they offer people, corporations, and countries alike. New services like video, game streaming, AI and social media push the need for data... » read more

No Two Chips Are Alike


As semiconductor processes continue to shrink it’s becoming increasingly challenging to manage the parameters of individual devices not only across the diameter of the wafer, but also across the length of a single chip, especially for a complex chip with a large area. Today’s standard approach to this problem is to assume the worst case and to create a sub-optimal design that accommodates t... » read more

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