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When semiconductor materials misbehave

21 points by PaulHoule

by adrian_b

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> The IP problem is one of the central obstacles to closing the gap between simulation and production reality.
> “Whoever is manufacturing has to give or disclose their secret material properties to our simulation tool, and then we can say the simulation result could be well-correlated. Without that, there is no correlation.”
> The problem is that the most accurate material property data is also the most commercially sensitive.

by wolfi1

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there are even simpler problems. in the factory I worked in 25 years ago they changed their line from 6" wafers to 8" wafers. as the wafers were significantly larger they now had the problems of sliplines as the support for the wafers induced now stress on the wafers, the wafers being not only larger but heavier too. now imagine these heterostructures you have now on dimensions many orders of magnitude smaller than then and the wafer sizes are even bigger

by daniel128492

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by sylware

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After a long gaming session, I usually get a GPU reset (AMD). I suspect a hardware malfunction. Almost everything does recover: my media player, the steam client, xorg in general (yeah, yeah, I know, I am writting my wayland compositor to move away from x11). But unity does does recover, have to kill it, but then I can keep going for hours.