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Wednesday, August 29, 2001
http://www.techreview.com/magazine/sep01/7_plastic.asp Plastic Logic - Disposable microchips Silicon microprocessors provide the brainpower for today's computers and other electronic devices. But fabricating these chips is an expensive and time-consuming process. Now a far cheaper, easier-to-manufacture integrated circuit—one made of plastic rather than silicon—is on the horizon. If these plastic-based chips prove practical, they could help give rise to inexpensive, flexible, even disposable electronic devices....
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