Sentence examples for defective chips from inspiring English sources

Replacing the defective chips may cost up to $4 million, the company said.

Defective chips can be expensive for computer manufacturers, especially when the hardware is recalled.

Intel can make fewer chips per wafer of silicon, and the larger size creates more defective chips.

One of the most important tasks in VLSI testing is to minimize the number of defective chips shipped to customers.

Its probe cards are designed to reduce manufacturing costs of complex, high-speed chips by identifying defective chips early and by testing multiple chips at once.

The more transistors on a chip, the more likely it will get a few bad transistors, and therefore a few defective chips, he says.

And in September, a defective chip led Western Digital to recall 400,000 hard drives and offer rebates to its customers.

Federal and state authorities are investigating allegations that a decade-old defective chip design used by Intel intc and Japan's NEC Corp. could corrupt data in some of today's laptop and personal computers, the Dow Jones newswire reported.

Hardware conflicts, defective RAM chips and program bugs can also cause the error.

Several years ago, computer scientists at HP built a supercomputer called Teramac, using defective silicon chips so flawed they were considered worthless.

Mr. Vaughn said that Ford was not aware of any crashes or injuries, tire-related or otherwise, that had been caused by the defective computer chips.