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To: Clarksterh who wrote (3147)	3/12/1998 8:06:00 AM
From: ricky	Respond to of 6565

Hi Clark, Hitachi and ERICY and others have been working with LU on some chip designs. I'm not saying Hitachi or ERICY have completely stopped work with VLSI but they are starting to work with LU. LU facilities and staff are very impressive. There is an interesting press release below. This is my last post on this thread. Since I do not own shares and have no intention of buying any I'll keep my views to myself. Good Luck to everyone. Rick Bell Labs Researchers Build World's Smallest Practical TransistorPaving Way for More Powerful Integrated Circuits MURRAY HILL, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 19, 1997--Researchers at Bell Laboratories, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies, have fabricated the world's smallest practical transistor that is four times smaller, five times faster and draws 60 to 160 times less power than today's transistors. While Bell Labs and others have built extremely small transistors before, no one has built a transistor this small with all the components scaled to deliver the kind of performance needed for a practical microchip,the company said. The achievement paves the way for powerful new integrated circuits that pack many billions of transistors on a single silicon chip, as opposed to the millions on today's chips. ''As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of inventing the transistor at Bell Labs, we are ushering in the age of 'nanoelectronics' by developing the technology to produce future generations of microchips,'' said Mark Pinto, chief technical officer of Lucent Technologies' Microelectronics Group. In microelectronics, chip features are measured in microns, or millionths of a meter; in nanoelectronics, chip features will be measured in nanometers, or billionths of a meter. The experimental ''nanotransistor'' exceeds today's transistors in such key measures as how much current flows through a transistor and much a transistor boosts a signal.Future chips based on this technology would consume far less energy, a boon for users of portable communications and computing devices.