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The Birth of Semiconductor 2.0

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the printing-your-hardware dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "According to several articles in the press, an Austrian company has opened a new chip printing factory. But there is a twist. The chips produced by this factory, dubbed Semiconductor 2.0 by the company, will be organic semiconductors, and will be produced by inkjet printers. According to the company, the new factory will be able to produce 40,000 square meters of semiconductors per year, mainly for the biotech, clean tech, and defense industries."

11 of 89 comments (clear)

  1. injet by mastershake_phd · · Score: 3, Funny

    Inkjet printers? Man they are going to be expensive.

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  2. Of course, the REAL money . . . by StefanJ · · Score: 3, Funny

    . . . will go to the folks who supply the ink cartridges.

    Seriously, this is good news. Cheap, low performance electronics could play a big role in "leapfrogging" in the developing world. Going straight from low-tech to whoa!-tech, leaving out the capital and infrastructure intensive middle.

  3. The birth of 2.0 version 3 by spun · · Score: 5, Funny

    2.0 is so 1.0 these days, isn't it time to move on to 3.0 yet?

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    1. Re:The birth of 2.0 version 3 by Threni · · Score: 3, Funny

      3.0 is the new black.

  4. Imagine a beowolf cluster... by vrmlguy · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...that you can wear!!!

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  5. Organic hmm delicious by aiwarrior · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now with OLED's i can order electronic food, display the picture in my OLED display and eat it.
    Simple.

  6. Re:Hardly Semiconductor 2.0 by QuantumG · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you RTA or if, say, the people who modded you up to +5 had RTA, you'd see why feature size is terribly unimportant.

    Fuckin' Slashdot.

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  7. Semiconductor 2.0 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    FINALLY, I'll have something to run my web2.0 on.

  8. Semiconductor 2.0 is quite appropriate by mangu · · Score: 2, Funny
    It's not exactly going to be a revolution in processing power. (In fact it puts us back in the early 60s).


    Well, considering that silicon semiconductors must be somewhere around "Semiconductor 10.0" or so by now, calling something that reminds us of the early 60s "2.0" seems all right to me...

  9. Re:Hardly Semiconductor 2.0 by Original+Replica · · Score: 2, Funny

    the idea of degradable logic is pretty enticing for the military.

    This isn't news, our military has been using degraded logic for years.

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  10. "Would you like to print your new graphics card?" by 7Prime · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can just imagine 20 years from now:

    "Congradulations! You have just downloaded a new video card. Print video card? [Yes] [Cancel]"

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