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To: Richard Chapman who wrote (1098)	6/24/1999 10:08:00 PM
From: Chuca Marsh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1364

Richard, right, and our last PR addresses the fact that Rockford has that new Plant ( billions $ saved) and is using our layers of dust film ON a SLICON CHIP...as a building block! SEE: <<..no one wants to spend money to rebuild their plants.'' Top-of-the line computers currently sport chips with 600 megahertz of power. Timp said a chip with the smallest features possible would allow for computer processing of at least 10,000 MHz. Such small devices could also find other applications. Such devices could include a combination handheld computer, organizer, cellular phone, the researchers said. Chip makers, who are constantly seeking to make faster, smaller, less expensive and more energy-efficient devices, have been told before that they would not be able to shrink beneath certain limits. This time it may be the truth, Max Schulz of the Institute of Applied Physics at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg in Erlangen, Germany, wrote in an accompanying commentary. ''The new limit to thickness is fundamental, however, and cannot be simply overcome by technological improvements,'' Schulz wrote. ''The science community and the semiconductor industry will have to come up with new ideas to avoid a bottleneck in growth.'' One analyst, meanwhile, said the increasing cost of building smaller and smaller chips will stop their development before science runs out of ways to shrink them further. Drew Peck, a Boston-based technology analyst for SG Cowen Securities, said increasing costs may force manufacturers to move away from current technologies before ''we plumb the limits of the physics.'' ''The challenge is to continue to push the limits of the technology to make each transistor smaller without watching costs spiral out of control,'' Peck said. ''Is it possible to build smaller chips in the laboratory? Yes. Is it possible to build millions of them commercially? Possibly not.'' The cost of building a semiconductor plant is now well above $1 billion, and has been going up by a factor of 10 every five years, Peck said. Dave Johnson, head of the Material Sciences Institute at the University of Oregon, said he agreed with the findings. ''I think they showed that once again silicon is going to be around for a long time,'' Johnson said. Others, however ..>> NUKE is the forefront of the OTHERS in this F U T U R E ! Chucka