Tata Electronics building wall to keep elephants from Assam chip unit & then come snakes
What do elephants have to do with semiconductors? No, not memory.
It’s that heavy tread, the stomp that they use to communicate. But their chatter could spell trouble for Tata Electronics’ upcoming outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) facility.
Ground vibrations can cause misalignments in precision equipment, leading to inaccurate measurements, distorted patterns, operational failures and ultimately faulty chips, experts said. All understandable when dimensions are expressed in nanometres, or one-billionth of a metre.
