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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."

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  1. Roland Piquepaille again! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Oh look! It is Roland Piquepaille providing another link to his ad filled blog. FUCK OFF Roland Piquepaille! We don't like you!

    Oh wait. Never mind.

    1. Re:Roland Piquepaille again! by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Oh wait. Never mind.
      Exactly. I think he deserves a little credit for turning over a new leaf. He's not the click-whore of old, and like him or not, he always did have a talent for finding stories that appealed to the /. crowd. I used to hate him, but these days, I have more tolerance for him than I do for Zonk.
      --
      No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
  2. Re:Hardly Semiconductor 2.0 by MobyDisk · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When I was taking Computer Engineering at University of Maryland, 3 students were allowed to have their chip designs fabricated. We used a 250nm feature size, which was fine for what we were doing. Perhaps something like this could eventually be good enough that every student could have their chip fabricated. The larger feature size would be sufficient for a learning excercise. 10 micrometers does seem kinda big, but if the wafer is larger, it might still be good enough for academics.