The mortgage critical defect rate rose from 1.31% to 1.51% in Q2 2025, driven by collateral and eligibility defects. The refinance defect share increased amid more cash-out transactions. AI Summary ...

ACES Quality Management reported that the mortgage industry’s overall critical defect rate rose to 1.51% in the second quarter of 2025, driven largely by sharp increases in appraisal and borrower ...

Mortgage lenders generated more defective loans in the second quarter, reflecting the transition from a refinance to a purchase market, according to ACES Quality Management’s latest critical defect ...

Detecting sub-5nm defects creates huge challenges for chipmakers, challenges that have a direct impact on yield, reliability, and profitability. In addition to being smaller and harder to detect, ...

Defects and contamination on the wafer can slow process development times and limit performance and yield. As chips get more complex, more defects can become buried within the increasing number of ...