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Technology Stocks : General Lithography
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To: Investor2 who wrote (998)5/26/1998 11:59:00 AM
From: Artslaw  Read Replies (1) of 1305
 
This "ball" technology is not a 'contender' for anything beyond 8-bit microcontrollers (at best). There is probably money to be made in that area, but not much. . .

For anything sophisticated, alignment would be a nightmare, not to mention depth of focus control. On top of that, you would rather not have you active surface contacted during the fabrication process, so I wonder how they intend to use the entire surface area while simultaneously not handling their "balls" {a strictly prohibited cleanroom procedure :)}. Perhaps they can cool magnetically levitate them. . .

There won't be any Pentiums on balls. Even if they made the balls large enough to provide the surface area required for a 'real' microprocessor (in which case, I might add, there would be MORE silicon used than a standard wafer), the heat dissipation problem would ruin them (if the temperature gets too high, you run into soft balls).

I'm sorry Kilby had to try to say nice things, or maybe the article left out some less choice comments.

Steve

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