Reaching reliability relapse?

摘要

NOT TOO LONG AGO, our industry suffered component-reliability problems, and large-volume users found that memory ICs from US companies had higher failure rates than comparable Japanese ICs. Now, as a result of intense efforts, ICs of all types are reliable, and hard-IC failures are rare. The same good-news situation applies to most of our other components, such as passives, pc boards, and the other parts.