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To: blam

He's looking at that circuit layout like it's a work of art....which it is....


52 posted on 01/05/2007 12:11:41 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"He's looking at that circuit layout like it's a work of art....which it is...."

That's ruby studnite...they used xacto knives to cut out the design and then used optics to step-down the images onto 'masks' which were used to project the image onto wafers...that's just one layer of a chip which may have 18 or more layers. It's all done by computers today and the images electronically transferred to 'steppers' or electron beam machines.

53 posted on 01/05/2007 12:50:19 PM PST by blam
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