The prevention of data errors in a hard disk by invalidating bad sectors. Built into the drive itself, defect tables are used to identify the bad sectors that are encountered when the drive is first ...

(1) The elimination of bugs in software and flaws in hardware. Defect management is part of a software or hardware development project. (2) The prevention of data errors in a storage medium by ...

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Detecting sub-5nm defects creates huge challenges for chipmakers, challenges that have a direct impact on yield, reliability, and profitability. In addition to being smaller and harder to detect, ...

MILPITAS, Calif., July 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Today KLA-Tencor Corporation® (Nasdaq: KLAC), the world's leading supplier of process control and yield ...