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>IBM AND NIKON BEAM ELECTRONS ONTO NEXT-GENERATION CHIPS >IBM, in cooperation with the Nikon camera company, has completed the design >of a new chip-manufacturing process that will use beams of electrons to etch >circuits onto chips and project a pattern of electrons to etch many lines of >circuits simultaneously. Named Prevail, the IBM/Nikon System will compete >against a similar system called Scalpel created by Lucent Technologies and >its partners Applied Materials and ASM Lithography NV. Through the use of >these systems, it will be possible in the future to shrink an individual >circuit down to the size of a single atom. >(New York Times 28 Feb 2000) ><http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/02/biztech/articles/28beam.html> ><http://www.newsscan.com/> janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset a new voice: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ 613 256 8340 PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario Canada K0A 1A0