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To: Ironyman who wrote (329)	8/15/2003 12:51:12 PM
From: maceng2	of 1417

Thanks, Now that I have pondered on it a while, it would probably be best if the semiconductor industry went back to 1 inch wafers, perhaps even half inch wafers depending on the die size you want to put on them. Put a single round chip design on each wafer. Chip manufacturing could then be designed almost as a continuous process instead of a batch process. Many of the engineering problems would be greatly simplified. The semiconductor business is in the same stage of development as WW2 battleships imho. Bigger guns were always better. They topped out at 16 inches (18 inches for some Japanese ships) then some one developed aircraft carriers, ariel bombs and guided missiles. The inertia behind developing multi billion dollar fabs, trying to keep everything clean down to 0.1 microns or below is staggering. /edit. Opps. Forgot the real reason for this post. Dumped half my GG calls as they had more then doubled up. I can now go and do some real work for the rest of the month -g-

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