From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Thu Jan 30 1997 - 14:51:00 MST
On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Ray Peck wrote:
[...]
> Even if all that comes out of this is an atom-beam lithography device
> to paint features on standard silicon, this would be pretty
> revolutionary. Think (say) 64 PowerPC 604-equivalents + 64 meg sram +
> 1 gig of DRAM on a chip for the same price as a Pentium today. That
> would sure help bootstrapping the rest of the future.
Beam writers are sure great for painting tiny structures. However,
they are quite unsuitable for mass production (SISD, not SIMD). I was
speculating on adorning STM tips or somesuch...
ciao,
'gene
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