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 ...

Buyers are frequently attracted to the first year of a major redesign by new styling, updated technology, and the appeal of being early adopters. However, the first production run of a newly ...

How can systems be designed to guard against unexpected downtime? How does system reliability impact product development? In what ways can artificial intelligence and machine learning improve system ...

As the semiconductor industry continues its relentless march towards smaller process nodes and more complex integrated circuits (ICs), the challenge of ensuring reliability has become increasingly ...

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 ...

TROY, Mich.: 25 Sept. 2025 — Refrigerators that suggest recipes, dryers that send a text when the load is finished and dishwashers that use artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize cycle adjustments ...

Reliability is a big factor when it comes to buying a new car. I know I want my car to last as long as possible and to have as few issues as possible. Why wouldn’t I? But while electric vehicles have ...

Consumer Reports’ brand ranking for used cars—focused on the reliability of 5- to 10-year-old models—makes it clear that buyers can reduce their risk of car trouble by concentrating on some brands ...

IC reliability in the past few decades has generally been very very good compared to decades before. If EVs were replacing ICs like 20 or 30 years ago they might get a big reliability head start, but ...