Half of all smartphones sold worldwide contain its most advanced chip technology, rather than older chips, which has raised its royalty revenue.

Thus, the importance of soft errors increases as chip technology advances.

Modern chip technology allows multiple metal layers and therefore coils with a large number of windings to be inserted into the chip.

This technology has been coined by some as the lab on a chip technology.

Within each series, there have been several major re-implementations as chip technology progressed.