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Auto Chip Aging Accelerates in Hot Climates
New data shows significant reduction in lifespan and potential new security issues as global temperatures rise.
“We have a number of OEM customers, and a couple of years ago they told us they didn’t have any problems and they weren’t concerned about their silicon because typically they were using 10-year-old technology,” said Steve Pateras, vice president of marketing and business development at Synopsys. “We have not gotten into a situation where the display on a car in Phoenix is failing,” said Satish Ganesan, senior vice president and general manager for Synaptics ‘ Intelligent Sensing Division. That triggers a whole bunch of challenges that many automakers never anticipated, and a much greater need for either raising the maximum sustained operating temperature of automotive chips or figuring out better ways to monitor electronics in a vehicle to determine when they should be replaced and how to cool them.
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