https://www.googleforeducommunity.com/t5/Engineering-CS-GFG/Seeing-the-quot-Mouse-Bites-quot-in-our-Silicon-The-End-of-the/m-p/212113#M2 <P><SPAN>Cornell researchers just revealed a technique called </SPAN><STRONG>electron ptychography</STRONG><SPAN> that allows us to see</SPAN><A href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/260305182657.htm" target="_blank"> <SPAN>atomic-scale flaws ("mouse bites")</SPAN></A><SPAN> inside 3D transistors for the first time.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>For decades, software engineers have treated hardware as a perfect abstraction—if the code is right, the execution is guaranteed. With our new ability to map 'atomic flaws' in real-time, should we start designing hardware-aware software that can bypass specific physical defects in a chip? Or does this break the fundamental layers of abstraction that make modern CS possible?</SPAN></P> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:32:38 GMT dlaufenberg 2026-03-12T15:32:38Z https://www.googleforeducommunity.com/t5/Engineering-CS-GFG/Seeing-the-quot-Mouse-Bites-quot-in-our-Silicon-The-End-of-the/m-p/212113#M2 <P><SPAN>Cornell researchers just revealed a technique called </SPAN><STRONG>electron ptychography</STRONG><SPAN> that allows us to see</SPAN><A href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/260305182657.htm" target="_blank"> <SPAN>atomic-scale flaws ("mouse bites")</SPAN></A><SPAN> inside 3D transistors for the first time.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>For decades, software engineers have treated hardware as a perfect abstraction—if the code is right, the execution is guaranteed. With our new ability to map 'atomic flaws' in real-time, should we start designing hardware-aware software that can bypass specific physical defects in a chip? Or does this break the fundamental layers of abstraction that make modern CS possible?</SPAN></P> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:32:38 GMT https://www.googleforeducommunity.com/t5/Engineering-CS-GFG/Seeing-the-quot-Mouse-Bites-quot-in-our-Silicon-The-End-of-the/m-p/212113#M2 dlaufenberg 2026-03-12T15:32:38Z