Today’s sophisticated microchips are a wonder, designed by engineers squeezing ever more detail onto ever-smaller chips, then built in ultraclean billion-dollar fabrication facilities. Just one speck of dust or an errant signal from a device like a cell phone can spell ruin.
Scientists speed up development of radiation-resistant microchips for satellites, nuclear reactors
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