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The government of India has approved a major investment in semiconductor and electronics production that will include the country’s first state-of-the-art semiconductor fab. It announced that three plants—one semiconductor fab and two packaging and test facilities—will break ground within 100 days. The government ha...

In the age of the global chip-supply shortage, any speedup in chip manufacturing and quality-assurance testing is a potential lifeline. So a technique first developed to find instabilities in UNIX command-line prompts in the 1980s is now being retooled to automate chip tests on the assembly line—and discover bugs th...