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To: Bilberry who wrote (9335)	1/23/2001 4:41:01 PM
From: Starlight	Respond to of 9695

Bilberry - The margins might be large on the raw materials used to build the system, but you have to factor in the amount of time and expertise it takes to put it all together, and the time that has gone into developing the technology. It's taken many millions of $ to get to the point where there is a commercial product. At $2 million per, it's a "steal". <g> Betty

To: Bilberry who wrote (9335)	1/26/2001 5:23:29 PM
From: Starlight	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9695

Bilberry - Here's an article I found in US News & World Report. Note how much money is being spent on research to make tinier chips, and also note the paragraph near the bottom about the .03 micron chip. usnews.com In December, Intel announced a breakthrough that will allow it to make a transistor 0.03 micron thick, well below the current 0.18 standard. (Imagine a sprinter shattering the record for the 100-meter dash by so great a margin.) That will allow Intel to build microprocessors that can complete 400 million calculations in the blink of an eye. The transistors won't be mass-produced for at least five years, when groundbreaking extreme-ultraviolet-light technology for chip making becomes mainstream. Betty