Frying a computer component with static is one of those things that very rarely ever happens. Yet it can happen, as I found out recently through personal experience — when building a new PC, I made a ...

Traditionally, digital logic has not consumed significant static power, but this has changed dramatically as process nodes shrink. Leakage current in digital logic is now the primary challenge for ...

My PC was running today and I was on the phone. I was just fidgeting around and for some reason touched the power button (didn't push it, just touched) and I gave it a nasty static shock. The PC then ...