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Surface Measurements in Chips Compromised

08/01/2005 8:14 AM

Now I know why there are so many glitches in my computer. My personal computer components have MOUNTAINS of 'roughness' on my chips. I guess we've been looking in the wrong place to find out why our computers are so slow.
The NIST has reported, "some manufacturers might be surprised to learn that a fast and increasingly popular method for measuring surface texture can yield misleading results." The article continues "...white light interferometric microscopes, introduced in the early 1990s, differed by as much as 80 percent from those obtained with two other surface-profiling methods."

I want my money back.

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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Glitches

08/01/2005 8:55 AM

With any mass produced commodity item you are going to have a fail rate of 1-3%. The fact that there are hundreds of parts in a computer just insures that somewhere in it your going to have a buggy or slightly out of spec part. Generally they just glitch and act wonky for a little bit.
Still having better testing should drop the error rate, nothing worse than having a new computer and having it act up on you.

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