Greenville, S.C. — Kemet has released a new MLCC capacitor that uses a soft termination to help decrease the chance of board flex cracking and capacitor failure due to an electrical short. Kemet said ...

Vintage computer hardware can fail in a variety of fascinating ways, with [Bits und Bolts] dealing with an interesting failure mode, in the form of degraded MLCC capacitors on Voodoo 2 graphics cards.

Capacitors are at great risk for failure. While it is certain that over time some wear out and no longer adequately serve their purpose, capacitors can also fail prematurely. A component fails when it ...