Plastic may spell the end of the silicon microchip (1 Viewer)

[jujuman13]

Comments please.
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FT.com / World - Plastic may spell the end of the silicon microchip

 

[Volker]

What has given the science behind the company more substance is today’s announcement that Plastic Logic has attracted $100m (£51m) of investment that will fund a plant to make plastic semiconductors – the first of its kind in the world. The factory should be in operation in Dresden, Germany, by the end of 2008 and employ 140 people.

This is cool, I like it when new products are created from university research and I especially like it, if it helps creating jobs here :mrgreen:

 

[PeteEU]

I thought it was only america that invented stuff :roll:

on a more serious note.. Plastic. Sounds cool, but plastic is usually made from oil based products as far as I know, although you can make it from other plant based products.. article does not say which as far as I can read. But it sounds interesting.

But taking bets that the company and patent will be bought by a big coporation and "forgotten"

 

[Voidwar]

But taking bets that the company and patent will be bought by a big coporation and "forgotten"

the straps on your tinfoil helmet may be coming loose

 

[Volker]

But taking bets that the company and patent will be bought by a big coporation and "forgotten"

Don't take bets too fast, they usually invest public money, too, this will not be so easy to buy and forget :mrgreen:

By 2009 the Dresden plant should be producing 2.2m units of A4-size semiconductor sheets a year. They will initially be used as flexible “control circuitry” for large displays the size of a piece of paper that can hold large amounts of information – equivalent to thousands of books.

FT.com / World - Plastic may spell the end of the silicon microchip

 

[PeteEU]

Don't take bets too fast, they usually invest public money, too, this will not be so easy to buy and forget :mrgreen:

just seen it happen once and heard of it a few other times. But yea public money might put a dampner on the attempts to bury it..

 

[Volker]

just seen it happen once and heard of it a few other times. But yea public money might put a dampner on the attempts to bury it..

I hope so :mrgreen:

Another thing is, if you take a look at who owns Plastic Logic, it somehow still reads like the who is who of big business here.

Plastic Logic