“This US startup makes a crucial chip material and is taking on a Japanese giant”

Author: climateer
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I prefer the Japanese origin story.From MIT’s Technology Review, April 11:Federal funding is spurring US companies like Thintronics to disrupt
semiconductor manufacturing. Success is far from guaranteed. It
can be dizzying to try to understand all the complex components of a
single computer chip: layers of microscopic components linked to one
another through highways of copper wires, some
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