The Chip That Could Survive Venus

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Colourised image of the surface of Venus from Venera 9, 1975. Venus is a particularly hostile world where electronic systems struggle to survive the intense heat (Credit : NASA)

Every piece of electronics ever sent to Venus has been destroyed within hours of landing, cooked alive by surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead. Now a team of engineers at the University of Southern California has built a memory chip that laughs in the face of that heat, surviving temperatures hotter than molten lava and it started with a happy accident!

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