23 Sep
2011
23 Sep
'11
5:17 p.m.
On 23 Sep 2011, at 3:48 PM, TeoZ wrote:
I was wondering do the devices actually blow up (magic
smoke) or do they start functioning weird (CPU errors like wrong results) and eventually
not work at all? I didn't think shorts or broken connections that small in a CPU
caused by migration would be enough to blow it up.
I've never seen a short, only an open. I'm not sure how you'd get a short
from electromigration since the EMF tends to move the metal along the existing
metallization path and it's only thin lines that are overdriven that have problems,
but I suppose it's theoretically possible.
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